[rescue] Small servers (was Re: WTT: 1.5G of PC2700 for 1G of PC100)

Robert Darlington rdarlington at gmail.com
Sun May 4 10:37:04 CDT 2008


Yep, and it's worth every penny of that license fee.  Too bad all
software doesn't run on Sun :)

-Bob

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net> wrote:
> Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>
>
> > I'd second that.  Having used Dell, HP, IBM, and Sun x86 boxes at work,
> Sun's lights-out management is by far the best of the bunch.  The bios
> sending stuff out the serial port even works "properly;" it doesn't just
> continuously dump the video memory out to the serial port.  It sends just
> the proper update when things write stuff out to the screeen, and IIRC, the
> cursor on your terminal actually follows the one on the display.
> >
>
>  Also:  HP requires you to "license" the iLO stuff which means keeping track
> of separate documentation and license strings.  While Sun just has the
> capability right there, with no licensing crap.
>
>  --Patrick
>
>
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