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

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Sunday 04 May 2008, Robert Darlington wrote:
> Yep, and it's worth every penny of that license fee.  Too bad all
> software doesn't run on Sun :)

Huh?

How does software that runs on an HP x86 box not run on a Sun x86 box?

Pat

> 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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