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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!lv.metro.net!news From: N Shaw <admin@net5.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc, Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 19:20:23 -0800 Organization: Net 5 - Administration Lines: 54 Message-ID: <331CE677.46F5@net5.net> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5fhkv5$8vj$1@halcyon.com> <5fhugj$4q2@paperboy.ids.net> Reply-To: admin@net5.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.138.229.162 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.sco.misc:35960 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36548 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6195 comp.sys.sgi.misc:28829 Hello All > >>We are totally a SGI & SUN house. > >>I am trying out BSDI, freeBSD and SCO OS5 to see if it is feasible to > >>run on the INTEL platform. > > >>In my opinion SCO seems to be the best of the lot. > >>I would like to find out what the general user community thinks? > > That is a valid question. The trend is away from highly proprietary > equipment and towards cheaper mainstream products that can be sourced from > a wide variety of vendors. Sorry for the previous lack of details, We now use our SGI's and to a lesser extent our SUN's for high user community (150-300 users) user web, database, CGI and FTP servers. We love everything about the SGI's except mainly the price. I am looking for a OS that runs on Intel boxes that has *most* of the same functionality, performance, ease of use, and reliability. As well as the same level of tech support. We are under contract with SGI for all hardware and software issues and we are happy. The main applications we run is the secure apache web server from C2net, HTMLscript, Oracle7 and some C++ applications developed in-house. All fairly portable stuff. We feel that the SGI's are the Mercedes Benz of computers, but realize to grow our company we must get more hardware to better segment the load and not be reliant upon just a few big iron computers, because things do break. I pose these questions because after 2 months of buying & trying the various UNIX OS's for Intel, I still feel that SGI/IRIX is the only way to go. I feel that I am not giving UNIX OS's for Intel because all I have ever used is SGI and SUN and I'm biased. -- +---------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Noel Shaw | N Shaw & Associates, USA | | Network Manager | 3200 Dutton Avenue | | Net Five Network | P.O. Box 3088 Santa Rosa, CA USA | |---------------------------| Tel: 707 575-1316 | | http://www.net5.net | Fax: 707 545-3926 | +---------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | mailto:ns@net5.net | Cel: 707 479-7452 | Pgr 707 323-9653 | +---------------------------+--------------------------------------+