On Wednesday 25 May 2005 05:30 pm, Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote: > Um, hello? How about Sun? You know, that funny Mountain View, CA > company?
Believe me, I would love it. However, there is significant momentum driving us off the Linux cliff. I mean, pushing us ... Oh, hell. > I priced out Opteron machines. I could save maybe $200 per machine > by building it myself rather than buying an off-the-shelf package > from Sun or HP. That $200 gets me very nice support from Sun. Sun > support has rocked every time I needed them. Call up, describe > problem, get problem logged, have support engineer show up *in person > with spare part in hand* within 24 hours. > > Really. Take a look at the Sun machines. I have been very happy > with my Sun Java Workstation W1100z running Solaris 10 on an Opteron. The likelyhood of getting this company to agree to a "platform" switch to Solaris on Sun/Opteron is slim to none. Unless you mean we should look at Sun purely as a hardware vendor for Opteron systems and continue running Linux on them... I honestly never even considered that as a possibility. Gregory -- Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key ID: EAF4844B keyserver: pgpkeys.mit.edu
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