Originally posted by kebabbert
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"VERITAS software has already helped The Philadelphia Stock Exchange increase storage utilization by more than 25 percent," said Bill Morgan, CIO, Philadelphia Stock Exchange. "The new features in VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 will help us drive further cost efficiencies and simplify the management of our tiered storage model. Furthermore, because VERITAS software supports Solaris 10, we have seen tremendous operating system performance gains that will allow us to better serve our customers."
http://linux.sys-con.com/node/48771
So where is your advantage from switching OSes on the same HW now ?
"PHLX is scheduled to go live in early July 2005 with its options trading platform running on Solaris 10 OS. Adds Ward: "The Philadelphia Stock Exchange has been so impressed with Solaris 10 on SPARC processors that it has now embarked on a new proof-of-concept trial on the Sun FireV40z server for x64-based systems and Solaris 10."
http://www.finextra.com/news/fullsto...wsitemid=13860
Also it looks like PHLX was a long time Sun customer at least since Solaris 7: http://www.allbusiness.com/economy-e...6914381-1.html
So when exactly did they make the switch ?
Final nail in your coffin:
http://blogs.oracle.com/sunay/entry/solaris_vs_red_hat
"Bill Morgan, CIO at Philadelphia Stock Exchange Inc.", where he said that Solaris 10 improved his trading capacity by 36%. Now we are not talking about a micro benchmark here but a system level capacity. This was on a 12 way E4800 (SPARC platform). Basically, they loaded Solaris 10 on the same H/W and were able to do 36% more stock transactions per second.
I guess if somebody made a better OS for Sparcs than SUN, it would be a great surprise.
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