J.C. Roberts wrote:
The reasoning for HP-UX is brand name recognition, vendor support, and
of course job security -when something goes wrong, your boss can blame
the brand name vendor in hopes of saving his own ass.
And this is, i think, the main point for my boss and his "not
understanding" about the advantages of OpenBSD over HP-UX. But...i have
hope yet...he does not "close the door" to the OpenBSD possibility. He
wants probes...only i need to find a heavy argument. For example...the
developers that port OpenBSD to HPPA and HP300 platforms....maybe they
have benchmarks between this machines running HP-UX and/or OpenBSD. It
works better??
LDPA has similarities to both database servers and file servers, so even
though it's not an exact match, performance metrics for database/flle
servers may be relevant to LDAP. As always, *YOUR* environment and
requirements must be tested to get any truly meaningful performance
metrics. If you have truly insane load and storage requirements, and an
unlimited budget, spending a quarter of a million dollars on a very
high end, 16+ CPU, Itanium box running HP-UX may be a better choice
than OpenBSD. Then again, if that's really the case, I would prefer to
go with big Sun hardware and Solaris under those circumstances.
This is a good point too. Is it the performance of OpenBSD running on
Sun computers equal to Solaris?? Personally...i think Solaris...sucks !!
But there is no a technical opinion here...it is only i like the OpenBSD
way to do the things. For me, Solaris is a like a big dinosaur.
By comparison, the multiple processor support in OpenBSD is for i386 and
amd64, and how well it will scale in *YOUR* situation can only be found
through testing. Personally, I've never seen a 16+ CPU dmesg, but I'm
not a project developer, and someone may very well be using OpenBSD on
such hardware.
Anyone that wants share his experience with this type of hardware?
There are people from this list who deal with fairly large LDAP/SASL
installations on OpenBSD. Chris Paul (sentinare.com) and Jason Dixon
(dixongroup.net) come to mind but I'm sure there are others.
Do you have their emails?? Please, give my email to them if they decide
to share some information with me. (I look the emails too, maybe are
public...i don't want to bother anyone with unwanted email).
The best business decision is the solution that gives you the greatest
reliability and security for your requirements with the least amount of
investment. OpenBSD has a very good chance of coming out on top in the
majority of fairly tested comparisons. The corner case of insane loads
and storage requirements is the one *possible* exception but even then,
it may be sufficient.
Do you have urls of this fairly tests?
jcr
Thank you so much....
Alvaro
