Solaris was used at CNRS

seeing linux everywhere, im still searching for non-IT usages of others systems than win/mac/nux.

i found a pic that shows engineers working on solaris. i recognized it due to the bottom part of screen. I never used a such system.
i guess it's almost "out of market" due to linux now.

https://i.postimg.cc/9fdnM8Lp/P38920-HD.jpg
https://rehost.diberie.com/Picture/Get/f/256198

but at that time, about 2012, i guess it was chosen for several reasons (that i ignore)

looks like it was in the both CNRS+thales Mercator Ocean project, made to "describes, analyses and forecasts the state of the ocean"

solaris might had success for storage or databases, in scientific usage too, but for other else, i have no idea.

Sun corporation had a lot of good ideas. Might still be some work on open solaris?

Solaris was a great system. Linux is better for some aspect. Actually Solaris 11 is supported until 2035, Solaris 10 under 2027. There are some free interesting alternatives like Openindiana and Omnios based on Opensolaris corpse.

CDE is still available: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/ (well, it will make it look like that).
Yes, I liked Sun/Solaris very much, (unfortunately) we moved to x86 and linux.

Yes, CDE was ported to Linux; I ran it for a while, but went over to XFCE, which is basically a modern version of it....

Originally Posted by fatmac Yes, CDE was ported to Linux; I ran it for a while, but went over to XFCE, which is basically a modern version of it....

Xfce very good, fast and not too complicated.

Originally Posted by hd99 seeing linux everywhere, im still searching for non-IT usages of others systems than win/mac/nux. i found a pic that shows engineers working on solaris. i recognized it due to the bottom part of screen. I never used a such system. i guess it's almost "out of market" due to linux now. https://i.postimg.cc/9fdnM8Lp/P38920-HD.jpg https://rehost.diberie.com/Picture/Get/f/256198 but at that time, about 2012, i guess it was chosen for several reasons (that i ignore) looks like it was in the both CNRS+thales Mercator Ocean project, made to "describes, analyses and forecasts the state of the ocean" solaris might had success for storage or databases, in scientific usage too, but for other else, i have no idea.

Nice find! In my previous $WORK at a University somewhere around 2009-2013, we had Sun Blade 1500/2500 workstations that were listed as "at sea" with Sun support as they were in use on research vessels, not sure what the exact projects were unfortunately.

There was also a period when Solaris was used for rendering, going way back. See http://sunsite.uakom.sk/sunworldonli...-11-pixar.html. I am not sure how long it took the price/performance ratio of x86 and Linux to overtake Sun/Solaris.

Cheers,
Steve