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Originally Posted by illscientific I think buying sun hardware and paying for solaris is a waste of money in general, especially if you're running open source software. Hopefully Sun and solaris go the way SGI and irix (inst) have.... |
While the first part of that statement may have been true 3-5 years ago, it's completely uninformed now.
The new Sun Fire Galaxy servers are an incredible value. I priced out an equivelant Dell server vs. the X2200 M2 with 2 x Dual core Opterons and the Sun came out more cost effective AND had the Lights Out Management board included.
I have to say, the iLOM board is incredible. I had used the old ALOM as part of a Netra X1 that I purchased when they first came out, and the new iLOMs on their x86 boxes is incredible. I love the fact you can get keyboard console access through web browser. You can change all your BIOS settings, everything. It's just like you are on the keyboard through a browser. You can even upload your own SSL certificates for it, power it on if it's powered-off, etc...
Anyways, you have another vote for porting Zimbra over to Solaris.
I have been following Zimbra for about the past 9-12 months or so, and as soon as you release a Solaris version, or if someone can figure out how to compile it, I'm replacing my current configuration on my x2200!
Thanks!
P.S. I agree with a post earlier, there is a large Solaris Admin following out there, that just don't believe any other *NIX is UNIX, next to Solaris. I don't want to hear or start a flame war, you have your beliefs, we have ours.
Thanks again!