I know they’re ex-Sun, but is there any real technical benefit for choosing not-Linux (for their business value prop)?
I know of the technical benefits of illumos over linux, but does that actually matter to the customers who are buying these? Aren’t they opening a whole can of worms for ideology/tradition that won’t sell any more computers?
As someone who runs Linux container workloads, the fact that this is fundamentally not-Linux (yes I know it runs Linux binaries unmodified) would be a reason against buying it, not for.
I know of the technical benefits of illumos over linux, but does that actually matter to the customers who are buying these? Aren’t they opening a whole can of worms for ideology/tradition that won’t sell any more computers?
As someone who runs Linux container workloads, the fact that this is fundamentally not-Linux (yes I know it runs Linux binaries unmodified) would be a reason against buying it, not for.