As far as I know George Woltman doesn't want that. IMHO Linux is more reliable and sustainable on the long run anyway but ...
Greetings Tobias Raymond Fung wrote: > If "reliability" is important, why not move to Linux !!! It is rock > solid. I have run my web servers on Linux and migrate my desktop OS to > Linux for more than 7 years without any reliability problem. > > So, web server software : > 1. Fedora 11 Linux X86_64 : free of charge > > DB software : > 2. PostgreSQL or MySQL Cluster : free of charge > > You can save the still 1,000+ software license charge for even better > hardware. Both PostgreSQL and MySQL performs much better than MS SQL. > > Regards, > Raymond. > > > > On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 20:31 -0500, George Woltman wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:05 PM, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> wrote: >>>> Weird... Enterprise is $160 >>> In the business world, Data Center Edition is like $5000 or more (based >>> on number of processor chips), and is only available preinstalled on >>> qualified equipment. >>> Enterprise Edition is $2000-2500 >> Microsoft makes their software available at a very, very low price >> to 501c3 organizations. See techsoup.org. >> >>> Brian Beuning wrote: >>> C. My personal opinion is Dell is not a "reasonable cost" solution. >>> (We built one DB server for much less than a Dell machine. >>> Of course home built may not be as reliable. The requirements list >>> cost as more important than reliable.) >> I think most GIMPS users view reliability as quite important - especially >> after the great GIMPS server crash of October 2008. I'd be happy >> to price similar systems from other vendors - any recommendations? >> _______________________________________________ >> Prime mailing list >> Prime@hogranch.com >> http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime >> > > _______________________________________________ > Prime mailing list > Prime@hogranch.com > http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list Prime@hogranch.com http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
