Edson,
You get what you pay for and I compared the SUN
V40z (when they came out) to an equivalent IBM (x345 ????, can't remember) and
it was 35% faster and only a few thousand more.
We ran apps, DBs and some encryption software and
it was a no brainer. This was all on windows but we also ran tests on Solaris
x86 and Redhat and found Redhat had poor support for what we wanted to do. We
couldn't get plugins for the database we used etc etc. We also found that
filesystem (about 5%) and CPU (15% for multi thread work) was better on the
Solaris x86 system.
Just curious to know what sort of benchmarking
you did ??
You'll also find that there is a lot more H/W,
OS, DB support for Solaris from Veritas than there is on RH Linux but not if
you mean Linux in general.
I guess some of the SPARC gear has been expensive
in the past but when you look at the T2000s and use them for what they are
designed for, they are very impressive and cost effective as well. You
also can't compare some of the multi domain boxes such as the E6900 up to the
E25K, they are expensive but for large enterprise business critical Apps I
would only use them or a mainframe.
I guess you can buy Dell hardware and I have in
the past only to find that hardware failure rate was higher and part supply was
pathetic. We ended up swapping out the Dell server for a SUN/HP(can't remember)
because we couldn't get the same motherboard again. They seem to change the
parts all the time. This is my experience in Aus and I'm not sure if it's the
same in the US
or other places ???
Answering one of Aleksandr's original questions,
in particular the user base part:
> I think there should be less bugs,
better support and much wider user base for Solaris.
I'd
love to see some stats from Symantec but I'm guessing there are a lot of people
out there using Solaris for their master. In addition to that there would be
HPUX, AIX and windows. I'm guessing the rest would be minorities.
Finally, these are my opinions coming from what
I've seen in the past in the various places I have worked at.
Regards,
Dominik
BTW I currently work in a SUN Solaris / HP
Windows environment. (with sprinkles of VMS, AIX, HPUX) all being or going to
be backed up via Netbackup. Also if anyone is curious we have tested the VMS
client and it works fine.
I dont think so.
Sun machines are very, very expensive. With the same (or less) amount of money
you can
buy an excellent Intel based machine (with more memory, more CPUs etc)
and Linux with a so much better performance.
I see no difference in support from Veritas for Solaris or Linux. My opinion,
of course.
regards