Re: Solaris vs. Linux sun vs intel ???

From: Todd Gillespie <toddg_at_linux127.ma.utexas.edu>
Date: 4 Apr 2001 14:41:16 GMT
Message-ID: <9afbqc$epo$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>

Gabberhead <mzoest_at_desyde.nl> wrote:
: And about the other post you mentioned, I seem to recall you tried to put
: him off with a whiny-ass reply then too.
: Can't you just answer the guy ? Do you have to let us know you're such a
: hot-shot ?

Okay, I gave straight up technical answers in both threads.  If I type
fast, and a little more colorfully than is proper on your side of the
pond, then so be it - life too short to clear cultural regs for each

country on the net.
I am quick, combative, and totally honest; as are most of my close technical companions. I find it to be a good environment for learning. I ask that you respond in kind, or indeed in whichever kind you prefer. I have no interest in convincing you that I am a 'hot-shot', this is just the way I talk.

: Now for the real post.

Oh good.

: I've seen the same thing mr. Schaap has, and I must say he is quite right.
: In my company several Linux machines have been running. Just recently we
: started testing with a SUN Enterprise 250.
: The amount off time and effort we have to put in to keep the Linux-boxes
: going, doesn't compare to the efforts for the SUN.
: I admit I've never physically worked on either of the two, but I have seen
: the consequences.
: Instead of having 1 person full time on the Linux machines, and 2 DBA's in
: support behind him, we have 1 guy working half-time without backup on the
: Sun...

...and I *have* physically worked on both, and I don't think you're seeing an unbiased comparison! Did you have different sysadmins? Did they have sufficient training in their respective fields? Experience? How can you even *have* 3 full-time people supporting equivalent systems that a part-time person can handle? I suspect that those 3 people are not the cream of your organization....

It's obvious that when you need the muscle, you can step from a nice PC to a Sun 420 and on up; I totally advocate that, no argument here. I waded back into this thread b/c of the contention that Oracle on Linux is some kind of half-hacked job that no one can use, and I think that is just not the case.

anyhow.

"If I'm curt with you, it's because time is a factor. I think fast, I talk fast, and I need you guys to act fast if you want to get out of this. So pretty please, with sugar on top, clean the fuckin' car." -Pulp Fiction Received on Wed Apr 04 2001 - 09:41:16 CDT