hi all,
i'd like to ask if anyone has got sparc box from fujitsu-siemens or any experiences at all?
are they good? what about the sparc64 v cpu? what for example the primepower 250 compared
with sf v210?
thank you
philip

philip wrote:

> hi all,
> i'd like to ask if anyone has got sparc box from fujitsu-siemens or any
> experiences at all? are they good? what about the sparc64 v cpu? what for
> example the primepower 250 compared with sf v210?
> thank you

The TCO study I did on them (800s) had them coming in at around 60% of Sun
on a 3 year basis. Performance wise the SPARC64 seems to be around 10-15%
faster on a clock for clock basis than the US-III and the binary
compatibility seems to be perfect.

At the bottom end of the range the FSC boxes are actually just rebadged Suns
- as a rule anything with a US-IIi in it is a rebadged Sun with the SPARC64
only appearing in their own boxes.

P.

In article <c1ltg6$1ke419$2@ID-169718.news.uni-berlin.de>, Paul S.
Brown <usenet060301@geekstuff.co.uk> wrote:

> The TCO study I did on them (800s) had them coming in at around 60% of Sun
> on a 3 year basis.

Mind passing on where the significant differences came in?

--
Bubba Dave Pooser

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human history with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

Dave Pooser wrote:

> In article <c1ltg6$1ke419$2@ID-169718.news.uni-berlin.de>, Paul S.
> Brown <usenet060301@geekstuff.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> The TCO study I did on them (800s) had them coming in at around 60% of
>> Sun on a 3 year basis.
>
> Mind passing on where the significant differences came in?
>

Capital cost and equivalent maintenance on my comparison. Also the ability
to work on your own hardware without it causing Sun to throw a hissy fit
and go "We won't support that".

P.