On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, John Madden wrote:
> > That surprises me. We aren't a Linux shop--yet--and I'm not sure I'm
> > willing to start setting up Linux boxes will-nilly for this. I'm curious
> > why Intel would be better than sparc, though.
>
> Try it out on a [higher-end] Desktop PC -- the performance may change your
> mind. Sun is hyping Solaris 10 through the roof for a reason, you know --
> lots of mind/marketshare loss to Linux because of Solaris on Sparc's cost
> and lackluster performance. And note that Sun ships a lot of Opteron
> servers. Kinda makes you wonder, right?
>
Don't think it is the solaris. We are using squirrelmail integrated into
our portal with 7500 users on a 6 year old Sun 450 with four 300Mhz
processors and solaris-8 with no performance issues. Squirrelmail is one
of the smaller resource intense applications within our portal.
Ron Clark
Unix Sys/Admin
Armstrong Atlantic State University
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