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

Liz Reen <lizr_at_geologist.com> wrote:
:> 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....
:>

: What you missed is that one Sun box is replacing many linux boxes.  One 
: sysadmin can take care of only so many boxes.  I have seen this before 
: with a different system.  At the time I had 44 microvaxes deployed in the 

You're totally correct; I glossed over that point b/c I thought the numerical difference in people was so large. When you drop all the way to 1 half-time person, that speaks very strongly to their awesome skill as an admin and a great deal of experience; when you can effect a 6x staff reduction for a perhaps 2x system count reduction, that also questions the inexperience of the staff on the previous systems.

We are off-topic; I hopped in this thread to explain that Oracle on Linux is a viable solution, and we're straying into platform wars. If you have the bucks, grab a StarFire. If not, linux is still cool. Received on Fri Apr 06 2001 - 02:27:47 CDT