Re: SUMMARY: Thanks everyone - tru64

On Tuesday 05 June 2001 13:15, Koivu, Lisa wrote:
> 10. Benchmarking Solaris E10K/64CPU against Compaq GS-160/16CPU favored
> the Compaq! WOW

The same can be said for a loaded ( 16 way ) IBM RS6000 S80 running AIX. *Much* less than an E10k and equivialent processing power.

> 2. Sun is ex-pen-sive! Compaq wins in this comparison.

Again, the IBM solution is also less money than Sun.

> 7. If it's possible, consider IBM/AIX. IBM's sales force is highly
> trained in administration so you can talk real system architecture with
> them (not that I'm an admin or architect, I am neither). IBM's support is
> also top notch.

Yeah, but you still gotta listen pretty closely to the sales pitch.

The *are* sales folks after all.

Intestingly, the DH Brown report put AIX on top of the unix heap for several year, that is until this year, when Solaris edged it out.

Jared

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