Re: HP vs SUN for a UNIX box

• "Babich , Sergey" <SBabich_at_handexmail.com>

> Hi, dear listers,
> My boss has decided to switch production to a UNIX box and now he's asking
> me for a recommendation between HP and SUN. I am a newbee to UNIX (to put
> it the softest way). I've heard people say HP is better, but need more
> than that...
> The DB itself is about 40G on RAID (currently on Windoze 2k). Any advice
> is greatly appreciated.
> Regards,

HP are generally more managable than Sun's. One advantage is HP's use of LVM (simpler to handle than most) and the ability to add devices on the fly (via ioscan and insf). It has enough foibles to drive anyone batty, but so does everything else so that's probably par :-)

The main drawback to HP-UX is that compiling thing on it tends to be a bit of a pain. HP's lib's are a bit flakier than most and gcc doesn't handle them well. You can always use HP's compiler but it ain't cheap (neither is Sun's but gcc handles Solaris & its lib's better).

You also have more control over the file system. Combining larger file system pages w/ appropraite striping can give you a nice boost in performance w/ RAID sytsems.

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