Hal,

Do look at the price comparison of a 3466 as a 'total solution' option.

What I mean is , don't dismiss it as just another AIX box.
It includes a license for 5000 clients (or at least it used to!)
And may even be cheaper as a whole than buying all the parts yourself.

The down side is that it will reach a point where IBM will say:

"Go ahead and run it into the ground but we won't upgrade it anymore."

and that point is usually (?) around 3 or so years ...

... joe.f.


Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley


On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Riddle, Hal wrote:

> Any thoughts on which would be the preferred server and why. We presently
> run ADSM 3.1 on an AIX SP node to back up AIX, NT, Novell, and Vax servers.
> Have absolutely no problems with the present arrangement other than the
> lease on the AIX stuff will run out in the next year. Management wants to
> look at other options and since we have NT servers on site, their
> suitablilty wa sraised. The NT's we presently use are the IBM Netfinity 5000
> w/h Xeon processors and a similiar box would be used for ADSM.
>