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Hmm Where to start...

"Sun's Solaris annual support contracts range from $240 to $1,180 for one- or two-socket x86 servers"

Redhat Premium puts *no* restrictions on CPU's and Memory, if you want to talk about one or two CPU systems you'll have to talk about Enterprise Server not Advanced Server. RHEL ES cost $349 for basic which includes full web support (ie submit tickets to RedHat engineers with a two day response ns $849 for 5x12 four hour response. Why the author would compare apples and oranges (Enterprise solution from RedHat vs MidRange from sun) is curious.

Comparing Apples to Apples suns Premium support with unlimited sockets is 1980$ a year vs Redhat at 2400$ a year (Sun Comes in at about 20% cheaper).

Where Redhat wins out is long term. When you are involved at any kind of volume or for any period of time Redhat cuts their costs significantly and guarantees prices. If you're running more than 25 servers take 25% off of the cost, if your involved in a three year contract knock off another 20% and for the term of that contract RedHat *contractually* can not raise their prices so the 890 you're paying for ES now is guaranteed until 2010.

Finally lets talk about the lowest level of service. Redhats development entitlements which provide any release patch and upgrade support for 60$ per server per year. Far cheaper and more powerful than Suns lowest entry point.

You have been shown all of this before yet you continue to propagator a lie.

yet you continue to propagator a lie.

LOL, you continue to have bad English. I simply posted a recent link from a respectable source, which concurs with my experience. You can post as much wishful BS as you want that Linux is better, but the fact you've admitted to recently taking a job at a Solaris shop yourself is hilarious.