Re: Sun Servers

It will be a relatively small operation but I still like the idea of one company for support.

Ronan
On 9 Jul 2014 04:04, "Rayson Ho" <raysonlogin_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Ok, then I have no opinion on that particular line. My irritations stem
>> from the Sun OS.
>>
>
> Older Sun OS releases were slow, but Solaris 10 was a major release with
> all the features that every Linux guy wanted, for example ZFS, DTrace,
> Zones/Containers. But then Ronan is going to run Oracle Linux so the OS is
> at least identical or better than RHEL. And the Oracle Linux subscription
> comes with many additional add-ons that are not available in RHEL - eg.
> Oracle Enterprise Manager and KSplice.
>
> In terms of the hardware, an Intel CPU is an Intel CPU no matter one gets
> the server from Dell or Oracle. I've worked with IBM System X servers and
> Sun/Oracle servers (at that time it was the pre-Oracle days in 2008:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SunRackMountServers.jpg ), and I don't
> find any major difference.
>
> IMO, the real advantage in choosing the Oracle server is the support --
> that is, you only need to contact Oracle, and it handles the hardware (Sun
> Server X4-2), the OS (Oracle Linux, with or without their enhanced
> Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel), and the middleware or database (Oracle DB).
> For some customers it is not a big deal, but for larger customers, the
> advantage of calling just one company for support means less back and forth
> between different vendors and often means less headache.
>
> Rayson
>
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>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Matthew Zito <matt_at_crackpotideas.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Note that the X4-2 server *is* an Intel server, it's not one of the
>>> SPARC line of processors.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am really not fond of Sun servers. In my experience they are less
>>>> powerful then similarly priced intel servers, plus they have their own set
>>>> of foibles that are irritating.
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andrew W. Kerber
>>
>> 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'
>>
>
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