Sun v880

[C4rtm4N]

Hi

I'm currently involved in a project where it's been suggested that a couple of Sun v880s should be replaced with windoze boxes. These servers cost big bucks a couple of years ago & something only about 1/6th of the cost is being proposed as a replacement now.

I know that hardware prices come down but I'm not so sure that this is really neccessary - can anyone confirm what sort of wintel equivalent a v880 with 4 x 1200 ultrasparc IIIi processors would be (8Gb RAM & Solaris 9, running Oracle 9i if it matters)

TIA

Steve

 

[comtec17]

That is right, resell value is typically 1/6th of the original price after 2 years of service. This is standard in the hardware industry.

I would question the person that is suggesting wintel for replacements as to why the dramatic change.

 

[C4rtm4N]

Thank Comtec17

I'm really after some kind of comparison as well (dare I say here that I'm not a unix man) as I really have no idea whether an 1200Mhz Ultrasparc IIIi is the equivilant of a similar speed Pentium III or a 3Ghz Xeon.

The box that'll replace it will have quad 3Ghz Xeon processors & I'm not convinced that it'll actually be any quicker.

Thanks

Steve

 

[coffeysm]

Well you can not just go off clock speeds when comparing Sparc's to PC's. The other main difference between the two processors is one is RISC vs CISC.

 

[C4rtm4N]

I'd realised that coffeysm, hence my question.

Looks like I've averted the swapout now anyway as I wasn't the only one with big reservations re this!

Thanks

Steve