Please help. I need your advice and guidance, please.

How is Solaris 10 as a Perl development platform?

How is Solaris 10 as a Perl production deployment platform?

What are the strengths and downsides of a home based individual who finds *nix and Perl appealing choosing Solaris 10 as their *nix platform for the following:

1) learning Perl (very well);

2) full time web application development in Perl on Solaris 10;

3) running and maintaining Perl web applications that get a lot of both static and dynamic traffic (at least able to handle a "Slashdotting")?

I'm going to learn both *nix and Perl (with PostgreSQL as the database) -- then develop and deploy web applications. I know this will take a while to learn well. I'm willing to put in the time, but want to choose my *nix OS well.

I've read about Solaris 10 having dtrace, zones and zfs. Those sound appealing, but most of what I read on the Internet on *nix and Perl speak about Linux or FreeBSD, rather than Solaris 10. Why? Solaris 10 has been out for a while now. Is there some downside that isn't mentioned?

I have no personal experience to base a platform choice upon. But from lurking and reading here I believe this is the place to get good help, advice, and some guidance. So thanks in advance for your help!

In reply to Solaris 10 for Perl development? Problems? Upside? Your thoughts, please! by Anonymous Monk

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