Hey Guillaume, I agree, in my oppinion Unix is a much better platform for production systems but your argument belows is not completely accurate in all situations, yes Solaris 10 X86 can run on a multitude of cheap hardware/laptops but in relation to AR System itself, it has not been ported to Solaris X86 and from my conversations with BMC will not anytime soon unless more people start requesting and sending in business cases as I did. AR System will only run on the Sparc version of Solaris running on native Sparc hardware which locks us into expensive (but very robust) hardware.
The day I can have Solaris X86 on my laptop with a full AR System running would be a good day ;) Cheers, -------- Curtis Gallant -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guillaume Rheault Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 1:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Advantages/Disadvantages between platforms running Remedy Hey Axton, At least for Solaris, you can run it almost anywhere, even laptops. So the argument that UNIX only runs on expensive hardware does not apply to Solaris at all. I have seen myself Solaris 10 running on laptops, how about that? BTW, here is the hardware compatibility list (HCL) for Solaris 10: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/ Here is the compatibility list for Solaris 10 on laptops, as incredible as it sounds: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/systems/views/all_laptops_all_r esults.page1.html Guillaume ________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Axton Grams Sent: Wed 10/04/06 6:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Advantages/Disadvantages between platforms running Remedy MSSQL Advantages: - Case insensitive MS OS Disadvantages: - When things break a reboot is in order, when things really break a rebuild is in order - c api development typically requires purchasing an MS compiler and learning an MS tool - Open software sometimes has trouble working properly/reliably and is subject to breaking with MS updates UNIX Advantages: - people proficient in unix/linux can actually investigate and resolve issues - Open software usually works UNIX Disadvantages: - expensive hardware Linux/MS Advantages: - cheap hardware Some questions to ask that I can't answer: - Is clustering more robust in unix/linux environment? Apart from a technological standpoint, there are other things to consider: - what skills are at your disposal in your organization? - what skills do your remedy people have? Axton Grams Scott Neeb wrote: > We have an initiative at my work entitled "Why Not Microsoft?". We're > supposed to ask ourselves at critical application milestones if we > should contemplate moving Remedy to the Windows platform. We > currently reside on UNIX with an Oracle database, so Remedy is always > being evaluated as a candidate for the move. They asked me today if > there are any advantages/disadvantages between running Remedy on > UNIX/Oracle as compared to Windows/SQL Server. I haven't seen any > documentation or user comments anywhere on the internet, so I was > wondering if any of you have any prior experience with this type of > move, and if you've seen any advantages or disadvantages to this type > of move as it relates to the ARSystem. Thanks in advance. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at > http://www.wwrug.org > ________________________________________________________________________ _______ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org ________________________________________________________________________ _______ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org
