Seth wrote:
> I know a lot of servers at USF run it.
Of course, as does UCF, UF, FSU, etc... SUN originally stood for
"Standard University Network". The original Internet was almost
totally Sun-based, and Sun's BSD-based SunOS ruled the campus
backbone. You'll find Solaris throughout most universities
everywhere, at least large ones. Most universities run Solaris
because it is one of the few platforms that can support tens of
thousands of users. When you have that many users, you cannot have
"active" networking going on like Novell and Windows.
Until recently, the only way to scale to that many users was c/o Sun
hardware and OSes. Now that BSD/Intel and Linux/Intel has become a
half-way scalable solution (on the tens of thousands of users
level), it is getting more popular at the campus-wide level as
well. Windows still seems limited to departments although Microsoft
is trying to change this with XP and AD.
-- TheBS
-- Bryan "TheBS" Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org chat:thebs413 Engineer AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. http://www.linux-wlan.org President SmithConcepts, Inc. http://www.SmithConcepts.com
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