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

[Rick Buford <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> 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. 
> 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.
> 
> Ian

Keep in mind that HPaq has stated that Tru64 will be end-of-lifed within 
the next 5 years. That's the current plan according to our reps, which 
is really a pita since we just bought an ES40 with a SAN last 
year...hopefully, the boss will let us convert it to linux =)

Rick

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