Barry Books said: > v240 2 processor 2 gig ram 2 x 73 gig drives Solaris 9 $6895 1747 c/s > Compaq DL 360 2 processor 2 gig ram 2 x 73 gig drives Redhat AS 2.1 > $7405 1835 c/s The term "DL360" as absolutely useless to identify the hardware in the machine. I bought a truckload of them in 2000 and they were mostly single 933GHz P3s. The current models have 1 or 2 3.2 GHz Xeons, so that comparison isn't fair untill we see what hardware was actualy used!
> from the serial port. I've never used Compaq. Can you power it up and > install it without being there? Newer models come with LOM integrated, not sure how well it works, though. But not as nice as Sun. At an ISP I worked, all we did was put them on the management network, added their MAC to the setup server and told which disk config to use for that MAC, turned it on, waited a while et voila, standard build ready to go. > Given the variability of benchmarks I'd call it a dead heat in Not so fast, first see what is really in those boxes! In any case, with Intel, you have the option of going dirt cheap and get redundancy in numbers. This isn't a good strategy if all you need for your app is one fast server and one for fail over. But once you get to the point where you need, say, 10 of them, each of which is allowed to fail at any time, you can just buy yourself some motherboards, CPUs, memory and IDE drives and stick em in a cheap rackmount case. Those are cheap enough to have some spares and you won't have to pay for 24x7x4 support either... Don't get me wrong, I am not anti-Sun at all; I love their boxes. And I know they are faster-per-Hz than their Intel-based counterparts. But I don't believe they are as good value as you say they are! Bas. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
