There are many folks at Sun that would beat me across the head and shoulders for not mentioning Mac and SOLARIS. We tend to have every OS known to man around the office except HPUX and AIX. Point is, we are encouraged to use Mozilla, Open/Star Office, etc. Sun is the "Network is the computer" company, what you connect to the network with seems up the user at this point./Solaris (happy now?)//Dell rhymes with Hell
Yep, Sun Microsystems use Firefox and Thunderbird as their "official" supported apps on Windows laptops, home office (anything non-SunRay). Took me about a week to fully give up my calendar from Outlook, but Lightning does just fine.
Our local VMware SE recommends Sun hardware if customers actually want performance and support. He must be crazy; Dell is soooooo the market leader in technology innovation.
Looks like you are looking for mid-tier disk that is able to handle Fibre Channel (SCSI) and SATA disk behind a single controller. You have several choices including SUN, EMC, IBM, Xiotech, and HDS. I would include all of those in your research. Price and performance leaders in the space you are looking at are probably SUN and Xiotech, with SUN's new storage line (aquired from StorageTek) being some of the best bang for the buck storage around.
This is assuming that you are looking for enterprise quality product and service. If you just want cheap disk w/ little to no support- there are several small shops in Boulder, CO that want to help you. Oh, and HP- they would fall in that space as well. Little to no support and performance to match.
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There are many folks at Sun that would beat me across the head and shoulders for not mentioning Mac and SOLARIS. We tend to have every OS known to man around the office except HPUX and AIX. Point is, we are encouraged to use Mozilla, Open/Star Office, etc. Sun is the "Network is the computer" company, what you connect to the network with seems up the user at this point. /Solaris (happy now?) //Dell rhymes with Hell
Yep, Sun Microsystems use Firefox and Thunderbird as their "official" supported apps on Windows laptops, home office (anything non-SunRay). Took me about a week to fully give up my calendar from Outlook, but Lightning does just fine.
Our local VMware SE recommends Sun hardware if customers actually want performance and support. He must be crazy; Dell is soooooo the market leader in technology innovation.
Looks like you are looking for mid-tier disk that is able to handle Fibre Channel (SCSI) and SATA disk behind a single controller. You have several choices including SUN, EMC, IBM, Xiotech, and HDS. I would include all of those in your research. Price and performance leaders in the space you are looking at are probably SUN and Xiotech, with SUN's new storage line (aquired from StorageTek) being some of the best bang for the buck storage around. This is assuming that you are looking for enterprise quality product and service. If you just want cheap disk w/ little to no support- there are several small shops in Boulder, CO that want to help you. Oh, and HP- they would fall in that space as well. Little to no support and performance to match.