[Sunhelp] Rack mount E3500

[Fuerst, Robert C. (Chris)]

Since I am only familiar with sparc 2's, 20's, Ultra 170's and Ultra II's,
cycle upgrades for the first two,
Why would you spend so much dollar on a "server" that costs that much?
For the processor speed? RAM? Storage? User load?
Seems like all this can be equaled or beat with a lot lower costs with a
Ultra II setup.
My upgraded Sparc20 is now a 300 cycle and that's basically a server and a
gateway.
Granted that is only for around 15 users......

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	ds [SMTP:ds at primenet.com]
	Sent:	Thursday, March 23, 2000 12:15 AM
	To:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
	Subject:	Re: [Sunhelp] Rack mount E3500

	"Fuerst, Robert C. (Chris)" wrote:
	> 
	> I wonder what the cost of the 3500's was?  I have a hard enough
time proving

	$75,000 w/2 336MHz Processors, 1GB RAM, 6x9.2GB HD, 19" Monitors and
	fiber backplane.

	The money was originally set aside to purchase AIX equipment, but
the
	equivalent priced equipment by IBM was a choice between a 32 bit
	processor low end server or mid range workstation configured as
above
	with a single processor.  Don't get me wrong, not that IBM equipment
	isn't a good product... it just cost more and the Sun deal appeared
to
	be the best bargain.  Plus we already had placed a E450 in place for
a
	Firewall, so we talked about only having to support one UNIX OS, and
	since we were going to have to support Solaris, we decided that it
was
	the best choice at the time.

	dean
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