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Subject: Re: Database Server Consolidation
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:49:18 +0100
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FWIW, the big Sun E1000s can run different OS in each partition. To all
intents and purposes, they are seperate machines (in effect).

"Martin Haltmayer" <Martin.Haltmayer@0800-einwahl.de> wrote in message
news:3AE7DDE8.31328452@0800-einwahl.de...
> a) the fewer machines are much more difficult to maintain. E. g., you
 cannot
> upgrade machine A to Solaris 2.7 and leave another application untouched
 that
> asks for Solaris 2.6.