Re: [AOLSERVER] Sun and Solaris vs. Intel and Linux

2002-02-06 Thread Roberto Mello
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 04:22:23PM -0500, Peter M. Jansson wrote: One of the biggest issues in a serious production environment is that Sun will sell you a reasonably-priced service contract where you can call them as much as you like for issues, with no time limits on each issue, and no

Re: [AOLSERVER] Sun and Solaris vs. Intel and Linux

2002-02-06 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 10:11 AM, Roberto Mello wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 04:22:23PM -0500, Peter M. Jansson wrote: One of the biggest issues in a serious production environment is that Sun will sell you a reasonably-priced service contract where you can call them as much as

Re: [AOLSERVER] Sun and Solaris vs. Intel and Linux

2002-02-06 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 10:53 AM, Scott Goodwin wrote: Not true, Pete. Go look at Dell. I had not looked at Dell before. You're right, they offer two annual support options for RH Linux, although I can't find details of these offerings on their website. The only thing I can find on

Re: [AOLSERVER] Sun and Solaris vs. Intel and Linux

2002-01-28 Thread Peter M. Jansson
Nothing formal here, but while debugging a performance issue with the Sybase driver, I had a Sun E250 with 2 400MHz CPUs and 1GB RAM, and one generic Linux box with a 700MHz PIII and 512MB RAM. Both systems ran AOLserver 3.x; the Linux box ran a Sybase server using the Sybase 11.x server