Well, for some reason a $2K pentium running freebsd with 64MB of RAM outperforms
a $35K Sparc20/71 with 512MB of RAM and best of all, you get to run real bsd
unix rather than solaris. Isn't that shocking? That means that I can spend
$33K on my customers, buying more modems and lines and offering more people
a job then wasting it on a machine that may have a supported os, but stinks
when it comes to doing the real job. I hate PC's personally, but after working
with crays and bleeding-edge desktop workstations, there seems to be some use
to them. SGI is a great platform and it has an unsupported OS, but it can
waste a SUN anytime, and in the real world case, so can a pentium running unix.
>>People wanted PMconsole for Linux - that is in beta.
>
>I would be curious to know the installed base of PM equipment, where the
>customers do not have a supported OS available. Livinston has been
>supporting the majority of the commercial OS' (non-intel based) for years!
Quite a bit now. Again why waste so much money when an intel based machine
can do the job. Note for an ISP, we want the job done with as little money
as possible so that we can make a profit, not waste it all on equipment.
Elya
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Elya S. Kurktchi Simply Internet
Vice President-Systems Admin 7841 Balboa Avenue, Suite 101
elya@inetworld.net San Diego, CA 92111
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