Thanks Jim...I have heard the same as far as reliability...I personally am
leaning toward HP...
"Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-downwithspammersfamily_at_attbi.net> wrote in message
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> "Rubin Farr" <vcovco_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > Hello all. My company has decided to go with the comprehensive suite of
> > oracle apps and we now need to choose a hardware platform. We are
> > considering all options. From what I have researched thus far, however,
we
> > are laning toward hp-ux. Sun is also another strong contender.
> >
> > I was wondering what everyone else is running on production as far as a
> unix
> > flavor (wintel is out for us.)
> >
> > I would definitely appreciate any links or reviews that you might know
of
> > that could show objective reasons for choosing one platform over
another,
> > and definitely welcome opinions from those who have experience across
> > several unix platforms.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> >
> >
> I would have recommended SUN, but they have started to use cheaper parts
and
> thus resulting in lower reliability. The company I work for recently
> purchased a large SUN box for over a $ 1,000,000 . The machine is only 4
> months old and it has had a hardware failure 3 times. We have SUN support
> that guarrentees a 2 hour response time with parts and service. In two of
> the three failures they did not have the part in stock and we had to wait
a
> day. We have not had these problems with older SUN machines. In
addition,
> I talked to a hardware engineer that used to work on those SUN machines
and
> found out in fact the bean counters have gotten hold of the quality and
were
> substituting $35 board for a board that used to cost $50. False economy.
>
> In the past I would have said either one are good machines. Now I am
afraid
> not, SUN has gone to the bean counters, look elsewhere.
> Jim
>
>
Received on Sun Nov 02 2003 - 05:06:39 CST
