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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!207.30.6.6!iag.net!tous2.oau.org!bilver!bill From: bill@bilver.oau.org (Bill Vermillion) Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Orlando / Winter Park, FL Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 16:23:11 GMT Message-ID: <1997Mar5.162311.26735@bilver.oau.org> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5fhkv5$8vj$1@halcyon.com> <5fhugj$4q2@paperboy.ids.net> <331CE677.46F5@net5.net> Lines: 73 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.sco.misc:36065 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36605 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6217 comp.sys.sgi.misc:28863 In article <331CE677.46F5@net5.net>, N Shaw <admin@net5.net> wrote: >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. The OS2's certainly are much cheaper than the previous models. >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 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. I so some work for an ISP who was an SGI dealer. They didn't buy enough product so SGI dropped them. They didn't buy the product because SGI had been promising solutions for a year and didn't deliver on many of them until last month, added to the fact that the local rep would never return calls or get us the upgrades they were entitled to. High end implementations now will be on Sun. Low end will vary - partly because one of the software solutions currently is implemented first on NT, then BSDI and SUN, and finally SGI. Some of the machines will be remotely located at mae-east and mae-west and the final OS decision for non-Sun units hasn't been made as of yet. One of the true Guru's I know (who disassembled a kernel and found a but AT&T hadn't been able to fix) likes the BSDI solution for their ISP. What it really comes down to is the application(s) you need to run. The platform upon which it performs best, and the platforms for which the vendor of the software specializes, are the platforms you should choose IMO. I have yet to find an OS that doesn't have it share of proponents and opponents. I've seen some nice features in all OS'es but none seems to have them all. AIX seemed to take all the features from all OSes and put them all together - but whether that is bad or good depends on your viewpoint. AIX on iNTEL was wisely dropped by IBM. -- Bill Vermillion - bill.vermillion@oau.org | bill@bilver.com