Re: actual technical questions (was Re: [SAGE] Did everyone Migrate to LOPSA ?)

[Adrian Rixon <ajr@trinity.fluff.org>]

23 Nov 08:07:15 PM: Meanwhile in the Sheraton, John Clear wrote:
> Linux, in my experience, is a great example of the old 'good, fast,
> cheap.  pick at most two'.  Intel or AMD are fast enough that we've
> completely moved off of Sparc, and they are cheap enough that we
> can buy extra machines to run extra jobs to account for the lack
> of 'good'.
>-- End of excerpt from John Clear

As a matter of interest, does migration to an Intel/AMD platform always go
hand-in-hand with a move to Linux or BSD? Why not stay with Solaris/x86?
Licensing/support costs? Hardware support? (I ask out of idle curiosity
because, and this is probably just a subjective bias based on experience
to date, I get a warm, fuzzy feeling from Solaris that I don't get with
Linux.)

Cheers,
Ade_
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