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=============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ =============================================================================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:06:48 +0100 From: Robert Mullenax <address@hidden> To: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden>, Dan Vietor <address@hidden> Subject: RE: NOAAPort data server x86 configuration Gilbert, I think you are completely dismissing Solaris/Intel here, which people frequently do..and Sun doesn't help matters much. BTW Sun hardware prices have comes way down as well.. an EDU promo Ultra 10 can be had for $2595(440Mhz Sparc 256MB RAM) and has great application performance, even though raw CPU benchmarks, aren't that impressive. Actually, you were one I thinking of, when I said I thought there would be opposing opinions on Solaris! But the fact is you can take that same $4,000 Linux machine (with judicious hardware choices) and run Solaris Intel. Solaris 7 was much improved over 2.6, and 8 has the potential to be even better than 7. Well, anyway, at least Jessica has a choice, there are too many who would like to see Windows and Linux as the only OS choices.. period..which is sad. ----------------------------------------------------- Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/free_video/