From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 10 5:28:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from curlew.cs.man.ac.uk (curlew.cs.man.ac.uk [130.88.13.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F9F1157DF for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 05:28:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk) Received: from fs3.rncm.ac.uk ([193.63.96.102] helo=rncm.ac.uk) by curlew.cs.man.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11wQ62-0006f0-00; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 13:28:30 +0000 Received: from RNCM-FS3/SpoolDir by rncm.ac.uk (Mercury 1.44); 10 Dec 99 13:28:48 GMT Received: from SpoolDir by RNCM-FS3 (Mercury 1.44); 10 Dec 99 13:28:35 GMT Received: from beowulf (193.63.96.96) by rncm.ac.uk (Mercury 1.44); 10 Dec 99 13:28:32 GMT From: "Peter McGarvey" To: "Alfred Perlstein" Cc: "Jonathon McKitrick" , "questions" Subject: RE: FreeBSD vs Solaris Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 13:28:30 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > Solaris on SPARC is as good as FreeBSD on Intel. On an Intel > > Solaris comes second. So if you can afford it get a decent Sun SPARC > > system. Failing that use FreeBSD. > > I really disagree with you, if you can afford sparc hardware then > you ought to buy 4 to 6 PCs with the money, you get both fault > tolerance and cheap/easy fast part replacement along with probably > at least twice the power of your single sparc system. > > The only time it's worth buying sparc is when you have the money > to get several of them or you _really_ need big iron hardware, > otherwise it's putting all your eggs in one basket. > Sorry, I was being sarcastic. I support a single SPARC system. For what we paid for it I could have built about 20 top of the range PCs. The only time I'd ever consider buying another SAPRC is if some third party forced the decision on me (which is why we have the SPARC mentioned above). Personally, I would buy a SPARC for personal use. But only if I have silly amounts of money that I didn't know what to do with, left over after buying that Aston Martin DB7 I want so much. In other words - in my dreams. TTFN, FNORD -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Peter McGarvey, Networks Manager | email: Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk Royal Northern College of Music | tel: +44 (0)161 907 5218 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, | fax: +44 (0)161 273 7611 England M13 9RD | mobile: +44 (0)7887 990564 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message