There are several companies that offer HW support for the SPARC boxes. We
let the SUN support contracts expire on our 4 E-450's and use a third party
vendor for our support. Quality was a concern untill the same HW contractor
showed up for an upgrade call from 3rd party supprt vendor, as did our HW
repairs under the SUN contract (we had two of the E-450's with bad cache).
This might not be typical, however there is still the option of buying
refubished equipment from SUN, or a SUN refurb shop. That way you get the
price break and still get the SUN support. Over all I'd have to recomend go
with what you know. If you are a SUN shop stay a SUN shop untill something
other than money gives you reason to change.
-ERIC-
"Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:3cbb3789$0$225$cc9e4d1f_at_news.dial.pipex.com...
> "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
> news:3CBB1C4A.1F6ABF29_at_exesolutions.com...
> > I would only go to Wintel as a last resort. But what makes you think you
> > can't afford another UNIX box?
> >
> > Check these out:
> > HP 9000 K360 Enterprise Server, Model A5140A
> > Four HP PA-8000 180MHz CPUs w/2MB Cache (A3261-60004)
> > 256 MB ECC RAM
> > Two 2.0GB Fast-Wide Internal SCSI Drives
> > 100Base-T 2 Port LAN Adapter (J3514A)
> > SCSI CD-ROM
> > 700/94 System Console w/keyboard (C1002A)
> > HPUX 11.0 pre-installed using Ignite server (HPUX 10.20
available
> > as well)
> > Asking price $745 on eBay. How much more would you need to spend on RAM
> > and storage?
> >
>
> and support?
>
>
> --
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> Audit Commission UK
>
>
Received on Wed Apr 17 2002 - 21:42:37 CDT
