On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 10:14:44PM +0200, PFC wrote: > > >Uhm... stick with commodity CPUs? > > Hehe, does this include Opterons ? Absolutely. Heck, it wouldn't surprise me if a single model # of Opteron sold more than all Power CPUs put together... > Still, I looked on the "customize your server" link someone posted > and it's amazing ; these things have become cheaper while I wasn't > looking... > You can buy 10 of these boxes with raptors and 4 opteron cores and 8 > gigs of RAM for the price of your average marketing boss's car... > definitely makes you think doesn't it. And if you spend that much on CPU for a database, you're likely to be pretty sadly disappointed, depending on what you're doing. > Juts wait until someone equates the price in man-hours to fix/run a > borken Dell box... Would probably sound like a Mastercard commercial... Not having to babysit your servers every day: Priceless -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
