I'm a long time user and sufferer of Sun's products; going back twenty years at least. My experience is that except for their core product (SunOS/Solaris) their products have been awful - over-engineered, buggy, difficult to administer and install.
Exhibit 1 the trainwreck that was the Solaris firewall. I don't think anyone in the world understood or installed the first version. Then they introduced a 'lite' version which perhaps a few sorry souls used. Then I think some sane person in Sun said 'fuck it' and they then offered BSD's pf firewall. Which was what everyone used anyway as it had been available for quite a while from outside sun.com.
This experience mirrors mine with Oracle as well. The database is good and support excellent. The rest of it (I'm looking at you Oracl Fusion Middleware) has an extremely high WTF rate and the consulting and support staff often have no idea.
Exhibit 1 the trainwreck that was the Solaris firewall. I don't think anyone in the world understood or installed the first version. Then they introduced a 'lite' version which perhaps a few sorry souls used. Then I think some sane person in Sun said 'fuck it' and they then offered BSD's pf firewall. Which was what everyone used anyway as it had been available for quite a while from outside sun.com.
This experience mirrors mine with Oracle as well. The database is good and support excellent. The rest of it (I'm looking at you Oracl Fusion Middleware) has an extremely high WTF rate and the consulting and support staff often have no idea.