If you need big iron boxes (>8 and upto 64 CPUs) currently, SPARC is your choice. AMD/Intel aren't there yet but soon they might well be there with multicore stuff. And if you are in the market for funky things such as hot swappable CPUs, dynamic reconfiguration auto-diagnosis and recovery etc. SPARC is the way to go.
For all other stuff, there is Opteron (x64) - yes the x86 is dead. A comparable Opteron system should be much faster than SPARC one. If you care extremely about speed - Linux might be a better choice. If extreme stability / reliability and/or religious belief is the concern, go with Solaris. (Ok, to reduce the chances of flames I had to say this last sentence ;) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
