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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison)
Date: 19 Jan 1996 21:57:23 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Dan Stromberg <strombrg@hydra.acs.uci.edu> wrote:
]
] Actually, we had a number of 2.3+patches machines doing quite well -
] until we jumped them to 2.4.
]
] Sun's autoinstall:
]
] 1) made it easy to load the patches on N hosts
] 2) inspired a system to greatly help with upgrades to 2.4, when the
] time came. We're off using it to move to 2.5 now.
Autoinstall is a strong "pro Solaris as an ISP platform" argument.
The Solaris autoinstall is better than facilities that are
supposed to do the same on other platforms.
This argument is limited to ISP's with multiple platforms; the
original poster implied that he had neither hardware nor software,
which would make him a startup.
A larger number of machines would be atypical of startup, but
since the original poster has not offered clarification of his
intent, it could very well be a deciding factor.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.