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[Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support

2006-05-16 13:41:33
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Symantec and Linux support
From: GreenbergKA AT aetna DOT com (Greenberg, Katherine A)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 13:41:33 -0400
But honestly, who's using Solaris anymore for new project
implementations????

(open worm can now!)


-----Original Message-----
From: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [mailto:JMARTI05 AT intersil DOT com] 
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: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] 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:jlightner AT water DOT com]
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: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] 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

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] 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: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] 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 ?

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