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Date:      Tue, 8 Sep 1998 08:02:27 -0500
From:      Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com>
To:        Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BigTime FreeBSD vs...
Message-ID:  <19980908080227.31656@futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980820213012.11858B-100000@roble.com>; from Roger Marquis on Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 09:51:21PM -0700
References:  <199808202230.PAA01577@pau-amma.whistle.com> <Pine.SUN.3.96.980820213012.11858B-100000@roble.com>

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> * Solaris has the easiest installation, best patching software
>   (sunsolve.sun.com/sunsolve/patchdiag/), best disk RAID (with ODS and
>   VXVM) and best all-around technical support (24*7 phone support and
>   sunsolve1.sun.com).  It is also the most expensive and most likely to
>   support commercial application X.  A half dozen administrators can
>   easily manage 500 clients, 1,000 users, dozens of applications,
>   software and hardware running Solaris and do it far easier than on
>   any other Unix, probably any other OS, IMHO.

  Let's not forget that most commercial Solaris pakckages that *I*'ve
run across do not have the x86 version which kills the primary reason
that I'd want Solaris.

  Solaris/Sparc and Solaris/x86 are so different in so many different
ways I don't think they should be lumped together.

  Tim

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