[rescue] Sun is purple - not blue....

[Doug Simmons]

It ain't about workstations. It's about big iron. And from that
perspective, as well as the one where OEM parts are 3-10 times more
expensive than 3rd-party ones, and where you pay through the nose to be
able to call and have a team of five in the datacenter by 8am, IBM fits,
I guess. And yet, if I ever had to bet my life (or someone else's) on
server uptime, I'd buy Sun.

Just one man's opinion.

Doug Simmons
Procedures & Systems Analyst II
Morris Library Systems
Mail Code 6632
Southern Illinois University


-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-bounces at sunhelp.org] On
Behalf Of Ethan O'Toole
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 10:48 AM
To: The Rescue List
Subject: Re: [rescue] Sun is purple - not blue....

> You mean like the Ultra 5? It was basically just a cheap crappy PC
with a
> SPARC processor.

Why buy a $20,000 workstation when a $2,000 one will do the job.

--
.-[ Ethan O'Toole ]--------+ - - - - - - - - - +----.
: FLICKR   http://www.flickr.com/photos/ethanotoole :
: HOMEPAGE " users.757.org/~ethan                   .
`----------+ - - - - - - - - - +-----------=======--'
_______________________________________________
rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue