mozek,
Last Proliant I bought (last year) with 2 GB RAM was in the range of $25+K.
I've already posted 3 articles attesting to the superiority of
the Enterprise 450. Either you can't read or you don't want
to look at the numbers. Go back and check those posts, if you
want the gory details. READ IT & WEEP, mozek.
As for the prices of CPQ Proliant's, your paltry response doesn't
say much, so I'll be more specific:
I just received an internal document showing a pricing study. It's
from an IT dept. that is interested in going with NT. The price
for a Proliant 850R with dual Pentium Pro 200mhz's, 288MB of
memory, & 72GB disk farm w/Raid 5 is over $31,000.00 NOT including
software. That is actually 5,000.00 MORE than an equivalent
Enterprise 450.
You can't seem to get it through your thick head that hardware
isn't the battleground anymore: software, support & service is.
You can try to compare NT with Solaris, if you want, but you're
not going to get very far. That's not my opinion, either, it is
generally accepted knowledge from customers to industry analysts
that Solaris is superior in performance, reliability, scalability,
and support. SUNW is a better enterprise vendor, they've been
doing it since the 80's when Bill Gates was still trying to draw
pictures on a CGA. |
