Conflicted...

I don't know what to think about this story... As a former / current / what ever you are having yourself Solaris Admin, there is a certain cachet to working on E10K's, 15K's (never made it too the 25K). Solaris is still a fantastic technology, and as has been mentioned in comments on other Sun related articles, their kit is built to last (was just checking ebay for some old Sun kit a few minutes go...).

With that said, I managed the european infrastructure for an absolutely critical order management environment for a... hemm, large personal computer manafacturer headquartered in Texas... based on Dell PowerEdge 6650's, 6850's, etc. running linux. It was migrated from Sun E10K's and the cost savings were substansial (primarily the maintenance costs of the old kit...). I must admit it was very effective, very good performance, and critically we were able to easily prove the commodity server mantra of in place upgrades, addition of capacity.

If I was doing it again... which way would I go... that's the tough one.

Jonathan

www.jonathanbourke.ie

Spot on!

I agree completely with your analysis, and in short order I will be holding an iPhone 3g... all to have consistant thick client (Outlook), Thin client (Web) and mobile client sync of my contacts, email and calendar.

I blogged about this before: http://whataloadofblog.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!46577623CF86C9E1!227.entry

I have been a paid subscriber to Windows Live mail, but you don't get calendar syncing unless you are a MSN subscriber in the US. Confusing andmisleading. An exchange is too expensive for just me on my own.

I also use Google Apps, which have many commendable features, but again are effectively web only and can be disjointed.

Angelic Steve Jobs - trust him to actually know what I want... for the moment.

Jonathan

www.jonathanbourke.ie