Re: [GENERAL] Ideal hardware configuration for pgsql/Netra

[Steve Wolfe]

> Yes they are better web servers than DBMS servers but if you
> database is small enough to cache in RAM then who care if
> the Netra uses slow disks?
>
> All that talk on this list about Linux vs. BSD is silly.
> Why bother when you can have Solaris 8 on SPARC hardware?

  Easy:  Cost.

   (And, there are other reasons, of course, but I won't turn this into a
Solaris-bash. : ) )

steve



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