On 19 nov 2008, at 16:15, Hans Christian Riksheim wrote:

I fully agree with everything you just said.

It is for a customer. I am not in control.

so, if the customer insists (and this is a new install) buy sun x86
hardware and run either Linux or Windows....

Best regards

Hans Chr.


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Allen S. Rout
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:12 PM
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Subject: Re: SUN CMT servers vs UltraSPARC for TSM

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:54:39 +0100, Hans Christian Riksheim

<HCR AT STERIA DOT NO> said:

We are speculating whether we should employ the latest CMT-server
from

SUN as TSM-servers. The CMT-servers are many cores/many threads but
each thread is relatively slow(1,2/1,4 GHz) compared to Ultra
Sparc(2,3Ghz).

What other architectures are you considering?  There's been recent
disvcusion about this on the list, but I'd put Sun close to the bottom
of my TSM architecture preferences.  AIX first, then Windows (because
it's popular now), then Linux (because it's popular tomorrow).

As much as it pains me to put Win in front of Linux... :)

But really, AIX is preferable if at all possible.


- Allen S. Rout

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