Anyone running big SPARC boxes?

[David H.]

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Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:

| Hi!
|
|
|>For a 4-way system look at the V440, it's much cheaper than the other
|>4-way system, the V480 and performs about the same. All these cheaper
|>Sun's have smaller on board caches but still large compared to PC HW.
|>
|>After this it becomes not so cheap any more (V880 and up) so I would
|>recommend multiple servers of the above models before a bigger iron.
|>Always easier to upgrade the software with redundant servers than one
|>big one anyway.
|
|
| We did mailscanning with a V880, one iof the bigger SUN boxes, but
| replaces it with a dual xeon. Its simply a waste of money to do scanning
| on SPARC systems.
|
Amen.

(Sorry could not resist)

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