But honestly, who's using Solaris anymore for new project implementations????
(open worm can now!) -----Original Message----- From: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 1:30 PM To: Greenberg, Katherine A; Jeff Lightner; Paul Keating; Dhotre, Shekhar; List Veritas List Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support I recently did a HUGE cost savings analysis from moving one of our larger databases to a new Windows Server / Sun SPAC Platform / Redhat Linux. I can't share the presentation and 20 page word document I created (corporate privacy concerns) but basically it came down to. Windows - Very price effective - poor performance Sun SPARC - Extremely price prohibitive - Better than average performance Redhat Linux - Slightly more pricey (with 24x7 Support) than Windows - Best performance Now this was all Oracle 10g based, and involved Dell vs Sun Hardware (Sun never had a chance from a pricing perspective.) Windows and Redhat are both priced well, assuming you want support - but if I can generalize here - Redhat wins out if both price and performance are major concerns. The windows was about 40% cheaper with support and licensing but then again we run several hundred windows boxes so I'm sure we get a volume discount. :) -Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greenberg, Katherine A Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:53 PM To: Jeff Lightner; Paul Keating; Dhotre, Shekhar; List Veritas List Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support Interesting, since every vendor I've spoken to who manages any kind of costing group for customers has had to work REALLY hard to justify the costing for using Linux in the enterprise.... -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:49 PM To: Paul Keating; Greenberg, Katherine A; Dhotre, Shekhar; List Veritas List Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support There IS dollar savings even if you go the commercial Linux variants and pay for support as compared to commercial Unix (especially the RISC based solutions). -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Keating Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:06 PM To: Greenberg, Katherine A; Dhotre, Shekhar; List Veritas List Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support Honestly though, that smacks of management thinking Linux is free (as in beer) rather than free (as in speech.) Any question like that coming from mgmt is usually related to percieved dollar savings. Paul -- > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Greenberg, Katherine A > Sent: May 10, 2006 1:28 PM > To: Dhotre, Shekhar; List Veritas List > Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support > > > I don't honestly know of a single company these days that isn't > looking at Linux for one reason or another... > > Unless you aren't. And then I'll know of one :) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dhotre, > Shekhar > Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 1:23 PM > To: Scott Jacobson; Ed Wilts; List Veritas List > Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support > > > >>I've been asked by my management why we're not using Linux for > NetBackup > > > Any particular reason -your management is interested in Linux ? ----------------------------------------- This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you think you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail immediately. Thank you. Aetna _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ----------------------------------------- This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you think you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail immediately. Thank you. Aetna _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
