Yes, one would need the whole Dell annual output, with Mr. Dell himself
performing
a few calculations here and there to match just one SUN 10000.
On 2002.08.05 02:08 Jared Still wrote:
>
> Dell 2500 ( I think )
>
> 2 x 1GHZ Pentium III's
> 2 Gig RAM
> Internal drive for boot
> 6 30 Gig Seagate Barracuda's in 3 RAID 1 mirrors.
> Ethernet, etc.
> RH 7.2
>
> About 12,000 dollars US. This 6 months ago.
>
> A Sun box of similar capacity was about 20,000 US.
>
> Great for low end stuff. High end boxes are another story, as
> Sun has some very powerful servers.
>
> Jared
>
> On Saturday 03 August 2002 11:13, ltiu wrote:
> > OK. I should try Linux with Oracle then. Cheap(er) alternative.
> Cheapest
> > would be Linux with Postgresql/MySQL but functionality is not there
> yet.
> >
> > Price-wise, is the performace of Dell better than Sun?
> Dollar/performance ?
> >
> > How much (cost) is the Dell and how much is the Sun?
> >
> > ltiu
> >
> > On Saturday 03 August 2002 10:08, Jared Still wrote:
> > > On Friday 02 August 2002 20:38, ltiu wrote:
> > > > RH 2.7 with Oracle 8 and 9 wow!!! where did you get these beasts
> to
> > > > work together?
> > >
> > > 8.1.7 required a bit of work...
> > > 9iR1 never did work
> > > 9iR2 was fairly simple
> > >
> > > The Dell is a fast machine with some nice ultra wide SCSI ports.
> > >
> > > The Sun is a low end server.
> > >
> > > Dell doesn't have anything that will keep up with Sun's
> > > more $$$$ offerings.
> > >
> > > Jared
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