On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 13:23, Zane Gilmore wrote: > I have heard much discussion about the replacement of the big Solaris > servers in the years to come and how it would be extremely difficult to > justify spending ~$120k on Sun hardware and software when much of the > same functionality could be got from one or more top end Compaq Proliant > or equivalent hardware running Linux for approx $15k Give or take hot-swappable goodness, an architecture that doesn't bite (mmmm, register windows), scalability, and damn sexy purple cases. (I have a thing for Sun hardware.)
For most cases you cannot justify having a Sun box. It is hard to justify having a BMW 750i, or a TVR, or a Bentley; I still wouldn't say no if I had the cash :) -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/
