Re: Sun Servers

From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 16:04:49 -0500
Message-ID: <CAJvnOJZdYRCcWymEsuk3VT9JYmxvz2MjrjDHk2B0fFhvdJ=A6A_at_mail.gmail.com>



I am really not fond of Sun servers. In my experience they are less powerful then similarly priced intel servers, plus they have their own set of foibles that are irritating.

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Ronan Merrick <merrickronan1_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I hope this doesn't seem like too much of a noob question but I have been
> getting more involved with the hardware aspect of things lately.
>
> I am currently buying some new servers and I was going to go with Dell
> machines as these are what I used previously. However I also got a quote
> for some Sun X4-2 machines which priced favourably when compared with the
> Dell, with the additional support costs for Oracle Linux factored in.
>
> My question is what is the general consensus among the Oracle community
> here on Sun machines?
>
> Have your experiences been positive/negative?
>
> Thanks guys,
>
> Ronan
>
>
>

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