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

[Robert Darlington]

Well, no offense to Sun, but they don't really make high performance
systems that are affordable anymore.  Their high performance systems
are still just PC servers.  My 4 hour time to repair warranty on my HP
servers that I don't need because they never die is just as good as
the 4 hour time to repair warranty on my old suns (which I also never
needed).  They just cost a whole lot more.  As far as I'm concerned,
the only thing you buy when you buy Sun is a name we all used to know
and love and trust.  They're no better than Dell anymore when it comes
to servers, so why throw out the money?  JMHO.  I still fire up my
Ultra 2 and scream at all the gnu software that refuses to compile
with Forte, so it's not like I'm a fan.  I'm just a realist.

-Bob

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Patrick Finnegan
<pat at computer-refuge.org> wrote:
> 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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