Start of rant
Beg to disagree. I have 15 years experience of Unix, most flavours from
Unix system III edition 7 onwards. Solaris is the most stable O/S that I
have come across, it's is the most supportable and easiest to use. And,
let's face it, there ain't a software package worth having that isn't ported
to Solaris. I also recall a conversation with Oracle who said that the most
stable Unix solution for Intel platforms was Solaris.
I don't work for Sun and I don't think that the Sun (no pun intended) shines
out of their backsides. Like every other supplier and software author they
have their problems. But (as Hughie Green would say) and I mean this most
sincerely folks, you would be a fool to not consider Sun.
End of rant
All of the above is IMHO of course.
Roy Chapman
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> Von: Ron Natalie[SMTP:ron@sensor.com
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 20. Januar 2000 16:01
> An: navjeet swatch
> Cc: cciug@Rational.Com
> Betreff: Re: [cciug] Advice on choosing a UNIX server for Clearcase
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>
>
> navjeet swatch wrote:
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> >
> > I have already obtained a quote for a used Sun UltraSPARC2 1200, 200MHz,
> 448
> > MB RAM, 25GB HD. Does this spec sound about right based on the
> requirements
> > above ?
> >
> > I would prefer Sun as I get the impression that there is more Sun users
> out
> > there than most other makes of UNIX machine. Any opinions on that ?
> >
>
> I think that a Sun is an overpriced, low functionality, hard to support
> platform, mostly do to the hardware itself (not that Solaris is any great
> piece of software, don't get me started about their Y2K that breaks
> working software).
>
> What we have been using here for several years are PC's. We build up
> nice "server" configuration Pentium boxes with fast raid disks. You can
> actually build up several and have a complete hot spare for the price
> of a single Sun system. Reasonable cpu performance, as much memory
> as you can get, and fast disk/net performance is what you need. Actually,
> clearcase isn't all that cpu intesive (it has some bottlenecks that
> you are advised to avoid no matter what platform you are using).
>
> If you're not into configuring it all yourself, you can even just call
> up DELL and order one out of the box. Install UNIXWARE and CLEARCASE
> and you're off and running.
>
> We use UNIXWARE as the operating system which has been supported by
> Rational for several years now. We have a few at 2.1 and one at 7.
> Support out of SCO/NOVELL has been much better (not that we've needed
> much).
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