For the past several years I have been working for the Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs. We make grants to Florida Arts organizations and some small stipends to Individual Artists.
I am currently building a new database for the Division. It is web based Apache/php4/postgreSQL software that will allow Individuals and Organizations to view and update their personal information as well as view the status of their various grants and provide staff with view/edit screens to access the complete data set. The machine I am doing the development on is a crumby slow Gateway machine, and we new from the start that this would not be our server. I have been tasked with picking the hardware, and my feeling is that SPARC offers the best bang for the buck. I have been pointed at two different lines of machines by a Systems Engineer for Sun here in Tallahassee, but I was hoping that you guys would have a better idea of what I can expect from these machines. Obviously it must run the Debian SPARC port, and while the Sun webpage lists Linux as a supported OS, they reference things like Red Hat Enterprise, which doesn't make it clear whether Debian is supported. (I mean to have a talk with them about that as well ;-) So, after that long-winded introduction, we get to my question: The machines I've been looking at are the Xeon V65X and the Ultra V210, V240, and possibly th;e v490. My question is: Which of these machines would best serve my needs as a web server/SQL server, and are there any other machines that would suite my needs better. Obviously the more horsepower the better, but I'm also on a budget of 7 to 10 thousand dollars, so the quad Xeon (at $20,000) is probably out of the question. My feeling is that the SPARC is the machine I want, but my only basis for this decission is that I own one (BTW what ever happend to Kachina Tech?). All suggestions greatfully accepted. Please CC me as I am not subscribed to this list. Waiting is, Dwarf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
