> Really? For workstations in general, and SPARC in > particular they seemed > cheap to me. Promotions combined with my Universities > discount (no > larger than other large commercial accounts got,) I > often got Ultra 5's > for around/under $2000, and Ultra10's for less than > $3000 (I doubt those > were creator3D models though.) The higher end PC's we > bought at the time > (94-97) were also around $1500-$2000, so It wasn't > much more for a > workstation or a SPARC. Especially when compared to > the SPARC 2's. 10's, > and 20's I was replacing.
Well I was a student at the time, and my institution didn't have any special deals hammered out with Sun, and I remember clearly that an U10 cost around $5,000 in her most basic form... should we look at pricing via the time machine, perhaps that would be a nice memory referesher? How do I remember this? Because the two of us (working in pair) were the only students in the entire class of 35 who used Sun hardware with Solaris for their project! > If' it's a workstation, isn't it supposed to go on a > desk? Why would I > put something 'workstation class' in a rack? That's > what the rack mount > servers are for. Or am I missing something? Yes, you're missing a lot. Your assertion is not related to my statement, which was: why would Dennis Clarke (THE Dennis Clarke) even *consider* using workstation class hardware. It wasn't about what workstation class hardware is. That's one thing. Another thing is, if it's not server class hardware, and if it's not 19" rack mountable, it's basically garbage as far as I'm concerned. Why? Because it takes up precious space. Because it doesn't have redundancy. Because 99% of workstation-class hardware doesn't support hot swap capabilities. And lastly, because a workstation-class machine is meant to go on or beside a desk, meant to be used for non-critical work. That's a severe error in my book. The time of the workstation is at an end. For over twenty years people have fought the thin client paradigm, but AJAX based web application will put an end to that. It's just a matter of time. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
