Re: [MLUG] hardware platforms for Linux: athlon, xeon, itanium, etc.

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Ian Scott wrote:

> Athlon systems are generally much, much cheaper than Xeons, but actually
> finding a vendor that sells and supports large-scale Athlon systems is
> pretty hard.  You mentioned before that you had an existing support
> contract with HP.  They have plenty of big Xeon boxes, but no Athlons.

I wouldn't be surprised if we end up with HP Xeon boxes.  We'll see how
the competition looks.


> They also have some AMAZING Alpha boxes, which would be my
> recommendation over Itanium2.  Unfortunately, SAS won't work on Alpha
> Linux.  It does look like it runs on Tru64 UNIX, though, which is the
> Alpha's 'main' UNIX platform.

See - SAS is totally fouling up my plans! ;-)  I'd love to be able to make
choices basd on general performance, and I definitely want to stick with
Linux, but the requirement that we are able to run SAS imposes a very
annoying restriction on my decision.  Now, if we could only get away from
SAS and stick with open source software, everything would be perfect!!

Mike
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