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

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