Yeah but, how about the disk? We payed close to that for 8GB RAM and 8-750GB drives (~5TB LZ in Raid-5) and 2-500GB Seagate 300mb SATA drives (dedicated for DB, LOG, OS and mirror) !
Plus the yearly license cost of AIX and having only 1-person who is a true AIX person also increases the cost. We have lots of experienced Linux folks plus the $50 license for RHES4 is also a cost incentive. ---------------------------------------------------- Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University Office of Technology Services University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 804-828-4807 Orville Lantto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> 06/08/2007 02:46 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] New Linux server issues Yes, the pricing has changed. I just web priced a p510 with 3 GB memory, two 4 Gb Fibre card, AIX with one year maintenance for under $8500. This has one dual core Power5+ processor. One is enough (2 dual cores can be put in the box) as it has a SPECint comparable to four dual core Intel Xeon 3.3 MHz processors. Orville L. Lantto ________________________________ From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Curtis Preston Sent: Fri 6/8/2007 01:32 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] New Linux server issues I've got nothing against AIX, but unless the pricing of AIX boxes has changed significantly since the last time I looked, the project would have to go HORRIBLY wrong before he go to the point that it would be cheaper to stick with AIX -- especially if he's buying a bunch of them. He could probably spend 6 man months working on this problem before he'd approach the cost differential between a single Linux and AIX server. (The same would be true if it were an HP or Sun server, BTW.) Then once he solves it, he gets to experience the joys of that cost differential over and over as he buys a bunch more Linux servers at a few thousand dollars apiece. We've got many clients using Linux servers all over their production environment and I don't think it's like the picture you're trying to paint. There can be just as many problems getting a new AIX/Solaris/HPUX config working. Man, do I know that. I've banged my head against many a Sun/IBM/HP/Digital keyboard. --- W. Curtis Preston -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 6:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] New Linux server issues >> On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 14:44:43 -0400, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > We have been having all kinds of interesting adventures trying to get our > new DELL 2900 with 5TB with RHEL 4 (fully patched), [...] Just out of curiosity, have you put enough work into getting this flying that your management acknowledges that AIX would have been cheaper? - Allen S. Rout
