[rescue] Re: OT Linux

[Chris Kennedy]

James Fog wrote:

> We are moving away from Sun/Solaris toward Defiant/Intel.

Our customer base isn't yet terribly accepting of Linux
(and to be honest, we're still having problems with it
at times), so we've migrated from SPARK/Solaris to 
X86/Solaris.  We get to use commodity hardware (that
smokes the doors off order-of-magnitude more expensive
hardware from Sun), and when the stuff breaks it's
trivial to fix (and painless to toss). The customer
base is happy, but still somewhat slack-jawed about
the price difference when we tell them that we've
cut hardware costs from $100K to $5 - $10K...

Granted, we've got a bunch of technology under our apps
that allows us to scale simply by throwing more boxes 
into the mix.  If we were doing something that required
being tightly coupled we'd be back in the high-rent
district simply because there aren't a lot of X86
options once you get past about four processors.

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