Honestly, you shouldn't. If the advantages of a given system aren't screamingly obvious, you're trying to pound a square peg into a round hole. However, the fact that you'll never see a windows version for sparc is an extremely good plus in my book. Windows is for games, and if you can play games on it, it shouldn't be in the datacenter. Explain to your manager that he can have his nice game systems, and when he wants to grow up and do real computing, hope to god that someone out there has kept the last strictly Serious Computing platform alive and well.
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Alexander Pyhalov <a...@rsu.ru> wrote: > john g4lt wrote: > >> So show me win 2003/2008 for sparc... >> > > So show me SPARC :) It's another difficult question - the price and > popularity (i.e. its absence) of this hardware, which caused Sun fault. > IBM (or even Sun) x64 blade costs about 3.000$. And Sun SPARC blade costs > 10.000$. They are comparable (and Intel/AMD blade nowadays may be faster). > So how should I explain our manager, that SPARC hardware is so good? Is it > really 3 times better? > > -- > Best regards, > Alexander Pyhalov, > system administrator of Computer Center of South Federal University >
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