Any hardware recommendation guys? We are currently looking at the following list of dual-cpu rack mounts: Sun Fire V280R $ 14,995 x 60% (Higher Ed discount) = $8,997.00 (2 x 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC III, 2.0 GB RAM, 2 x 73 GB 10000 RPM SCSI drives, 10/100 Ethernet, Solaris 8 or 9)
Apple XServe G5 $4,799.00 (list) (2 x 2.0 GHz PowerPC G5, 2.0 GB RAM, 2 x 80 GB 7200 RPM ATA drives, 2 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet, Max OS X) Dell PE 1750 $4,624.00 (list) (2 x 3.2 GHz Intel Xeon, 2.0 GB RAM, 2 x 73.0 GB 10000 RPM SCSI drives, 2 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet, no OS) HP ProLiant DL140 $4,745.00 (list) (2 x 3.2 GHz Intel Xeon, 2.0 GB RAM, 2 x 80 GB 7200 RPM ATA drives, 2 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet, no OS) HP ProLiant DL360 G3 $6,706.00 (list) (2 x 3.2 GHz Intel Xeon, 2.0 GB RAM, 2 x 72.8 GB 10000 RPM SCSI hot-pluggable drives, 2 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet, no OS) Or do you guys have other experience with other great machines? Thanks. Lucas > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Warren > Togami > Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 9:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [luau] migration > > Lucas Halim wrote: > >>From the beginning of our apps development, we tried not to use too > much vendor specific feature so > > PL/SQL is not a biggie but it's definitely good to know. > > > > We are in the process of getting in new boxes and will try out Fedora > > > > Thanks guys for the responses. Just keep it coming. > > > > Lucas > > > > postgresql is indeed nice, but please read the following about Fedora. > > I am a Fedora developer and personally use it myself on all of my > servers (and desktops, and thin clients... etc.), I wouldn't recommend > it for something that needs to remain at the same version for several > years, like you probably want for an important database server. > > While the software in each Fedora distribution is generally very stable, > each Fedora distribution is only supported for maybe 7-9 months after > release. There is the chance that the Fedora Legacy Project [1] may > continue security updates beyond the company's EOL, but the project > needs more community developers to make that a reality. For these > reasons, Fedora it is only really suitable for servers if you know Linux > well and you don't mind upgrading the servers once or twice per year. > For example if you have extra hardware you can do validation testing of > the newer distribution and deploy it before the old Fedora goes EOL. > > Long story short... Fedora is not a great long term server solution. > You may want to look at the alternatives like Debian, SuSE or RHEL. > > http://www.redhat.com/solutions/industries/education/ > Be warned that I am totally biased in recommending this, but Red Hat > Enterprise Linux for academic institutions seems to be very reasonably > priced and may suit your needs well. Red Hat is supposed to maintain > security updates for each version of RHEL for something like 5 years, > meaning you have plenty of time before EOL. The pages above says $50/yr > for academic institutions, which appears a bit smaller than $1499/yr for > RHEL AS. Something like every 1.5 years they plan on releasing a new > version of RHEL, and the subscription allows you to download and upgrade > to the latest version at no additional cost. > > [1] > http://www.fedoralegacy.org > > Warren Togami > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau