> You can plug them together for less than 500€ if you > order the stuff > from alternate.de
When you put a system together yourself, you get no warranty and no LOM. OK, so you could do without the warranty, but system without a LOM? Wow. You may even be able to get Solaris Platinum support for your custom built system -- but just step outside of strict Solaris boundaries (i.e. problems with 3rd party HW which isn't on the HCL or even Solaris drivers) -- and you're royally screwed. I know this because these days I build custom designed 2 x dual core 1U Opteron systems. And believe me, I learned the hard way. And while I can build you a high density, maxed out Opteron beast running Solaris, that no vendor can match in price (around 2500 Euro), getting Solaris support from Sun is a constant game of cat and mice, a gray area where you're never sure what you're going to get from them. Only if you are kernel debug / DTrace expert and can prove Sun stuff is broken will you get anywhere in that case. Otherwise, they'll be quick to brush you off as soon as possible. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
