"What counts at the enterprise level are the operating costs, risks, and limitations imposed by whatever infrastructure is used - not the start-up cost of that infrastructure." So writes Paul Murphy in his blog "Unix vs Wintel/DP: the cost/benefit issue."
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It's safe to say that only Larry Ellison and a few of his top level Oracle executives really know "what's next for customers at Sun," but there is plenty of room for intelligent speculation on this score, and that is what Paul Murphy provides in his brief blog post on that topic. By and large, what Murphy sees will be welcomed by Sun customers.
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The ZDNet article "p570 vs. T5220" takes up the attempt to resolve the question of superiority concerning the price performance of the IBM p550 versus the Sun Fire T5440. Paul Murphy notes that Jesper Frimann has given the nod to the p550, given that it supports shared pool virtualization and, hence, should allow for much higher utilization.
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Each month Sun Marketing publishes the "Good News" about Sun. This month there are 17 items and three groups:
Customers Choose Sun: Solaris and Intel's Xeon 5500 Series, Sun Modular Datacenter, Sun Constellation System, OpenSolaris, MySQL, Sun CoolThreads, OpenOffice
Leading Market Conversations: open source, cloud computing, Virtual Data Center, open storage, flash memory, Sun Modular Datacenter
Product Reviews Underscore Innovation: Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage System, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 Server, JavaFX, Sun Fire X4140 Server
A two-page PDF of the "Good News" from Sun is available in English and several other languages.
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Each month Sun Marketing publishes the "Good News" about Sun. This month there are 13 items and three groups:
Customers Choose Sun: MySQL database and Cluster software, Sun Open Storage, Sun Fire servers, Solaris 10 OS, ZFS file system, OpenSSO Enterprise, Identity Management
Leading Market Conversations: Solaris OS, cloud computing, JavaFX Mobile software, free and open-source technologies
Product Reviews Underscore Innovation: Sun Storage 7210, JavaFX, OpenOffice.org 3, Sun Storage 7000 series
A two-page PDF of the "Good News" from Sun is available in English and several other languages.
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