Re: Sunxclaims Solaris86 Faster than RHEL3 (Sun marketing pdf)

[Dominic Rivera <dominic rivera gmail com>]

Zate, could you elaborate a litte bit more on Solaris being cheaper than RHEL?

Perhaps numbers for a RHEL box and a Solaris box:
Sytem Model and Configuration/Purchase Cost/Support Cost/Expected Lifetime

Thanks,
Dominic


On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:07:00 -0400, Zate Berg <zate75 gmail com> wrote:
> dont wanna do that.  RHEL is ALOT more expensive than Solaris.  At
> least where i work it is.  Damned sun global support contracts.
> 
> Actually SUSe has a great model for support of Linux, tickets.  So i
> dont need to pay $2500 a year for each server.
> 
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 17:58:18 -0000, James Marcinek
> 
> 
> <jmarc1 jemconsult biz> wrote:
> > Did they mention the cost of their O/S platform and compare cost to performance
> > ratio?
> >
> > &quot;Stephen J. Smoogen&quot; &lt;smooge gmail com&gt;,&quot;Discussion of Red
> >
> >
> > Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)&quot; &lt;taroon-list redhat com&gt; wrote:
> > > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:06:18 -0700 (PDT), shane stixrud org
> > > <shane stixrud org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.sun.com/emrkt/nettalk/sun_network_systems_nettalk.pdf
> > > >
> > > > No details of course, but interesting to see how Sun plans on selling
> > > > solaris vs RedHat.
> > > >
> > >
> > > It might be possible... Of course it could also be them comparing 32
> > > bit kernels versus 64 bit ones... but I would only expect that from
> > > Microsoft.
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