Robert Treat wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 December 2008 19:43:02 Liraz Siri wrote:
>> Greg has a good point. Ubuntu is a bit of a moving target. In contrast,
>> Debian has a much slower release cycle than Ubuntu and is thus
>> considered by many people to be preferable for production server
>> applications.
>>
>
> Another option for folks is to switch to another operating system thats a bit
> more stable *cough*solaris*cough*bsd*cough*
Solaris is awesome (dtrace rocks!), but I still prefer Debian/Linux for
the same reasons I prefer PostgreSQL over MySQL - its lack of dependence
on any single company.
Besides Sun Microsystems hasn't been a financially healthy organization
for quite a few years, as evidenced by its rather dismal stock performance:
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=java
Cheers,
Liraz