On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 10:08, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > > Another guy at work has been trying to get us to go to a mixture of True64 > > Tru64(aka dead os) is going to disapear soon, in favor of HP-UX. > > > and Solaris. Now that RH is *more* expensive on x86 than Solaris, and my > > boss is an old Solaris/SPARC admin....well, you get the idea. > > Solaris x86 is not so well supported, all enterprise features are > for SPARC edition. And UNIX RISC boxes are _expensive_ > Yes make sure you read the fine print of what is covered by Solaris x86 at 250.00.. it is not as simple and clean as a price difference does. But then again.. it was never really fair to compare a 49.99 installation support only boxed set to a 250.00 commercial support solaris in the first place.. but many linux heads did so. > > List price for Solaris 9 Workgroup server is $250 US. > > List price for RHEL ES is $349 US. > > RHEL gets more supported software than others OS(Solaris, AIX, HP-UX...), > like postgesql, zebra,.... It doesn't is a real comparative. -- Stephen John Smoogen smoogen@xxxxxxxx Los Alamos National Lab CCN-5 Sched 5/40 PH: 4-0645 Ta-03 SM-1498 MailStop B255 DP 10S Los Alamos, NM 87545 -- So shines a good deed in a weary world. = Willy Wonka --
