[rescue] Anyone interested in a Sun E3000?

velociraptor velociraptor at gmail.com
Fri Dec 1 13:47:24 CST 2006


On 11/30/06, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bill Bradford wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 02:17:48PM -0500, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> >> If you think multiple V890s are cool, there's a single rack here that
> >> contains 8 (!) IBM System p5 550Q's with 8 POWER5+ cores and 16GB RAM each.
> >
> > Lemme guess, that's a minimum config to run WebSphere? 8-)
>
> Actually, they're all running Oracle.  8-/
>
> And it's still probably not quite enough horsepower.

And here they claimed at $job-3 ($gov_agency) that running Oracle on
AIX was more cost-effective and scalable than Solaris or Linux.  Your
tax dollars at work!

=Nadine=



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