Re: Trying to compare E450 to Intel Server

From: G Dahler <yellow-shark_at_spamex.com>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:13:23 -0400
Message-ID: <UdLnc.6586$FH5.330619@news20.bellglobal.com>

"Andrew Hardy" <junkmail@[127.0.0.1]> a écrit dans le message de news:c7nm36$5qe$1_at_sun-cc204.lut.ac.uk...
> Hi,
>
> We're using an E450: 'Sun Enterprise 450 (4 X UltraSPARC-II 296MHz)'
> with 1Gb of RAM as a development platform.
>

We recently replaced a similar UE 450 2Gb RAM machine by a Sun 280R (1.2 Ghz single CPU, 5Gb RAM) and found the machine to perform as good (if not better) than the 450. Technology (eg. disks) as improved a lot since the 450, that gives a good boost in performance.

I would not run anything else than solaris or Linux on the Intel Platform, otherwise, your CPU will be busy managing the GUI and useless stuff instead of your database. But other people may actually like windows for whatever reason (maybe they have MSFT stock :-) Received on Mon May 10 2004 - 08:13:23 CDT