RE: Solaris vs Windows 2000

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> I know you are trying to evaluate Solaris and Windows, but ...
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> Linux is the way to go. Sun's are expensive machines.
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When one considers the overall cost of deploying and maintaining an application -- hardware, personnel, data center space, software licensing, etc. -- the cost of the hardware is usually only a very small percentage of the total cost over the lifetime of the application on that hardware. Crippling yourself on the basis of hardware costs is a classic case of being penny wise and dollar foolish.

If you look at the cost of Xeon equipped machines, I think you'll find that those don't come cheap either.

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