Advantage for Linux64-bit Versus Solaris-x86_64 OS in RAC

Hi,
Could someone has any comparison document btw Linux-64 bit (RHEL OR Oracle) and Solaris x86_64 operating system for RAC environment?
I am looking for advantages, disadvantages, performance issues, installation issues, reliability issues, and oracle road map etc.,
Really appreciate your help!!!!!
thanks
rk

I'd think that comparison is a bit biased though having used both Solaris (x86, x64 and SPARC) and Linux, I'd give the edge to Solaris SPARC over its other incarnations and Linux in any case.
The reason for using Solaris x86/x64 (for the company I worked for at the time at least) is, as usual, hardware pricing. The x86 hardware is far cheaper than SPARC hardware, but my management did not trust/like Linux hence we used Solaris x86/x64 for the OS. The team lead was a Solaris guy all his life and had previous issues with Linux so I couldn't blame him, as well as, the shop was already Sun so we already had their support and the official Linux support was spotting at the time.
I don't like Solaris unless it is SPARC though, the other incarnations for me have issues and the Oracle support is lacking. The Oracle releases are WELL behind any other OS release, most likely because Solx64/86 does not have a large enough user base and hence requests.

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