On 18 Aug 2003 at 9:57, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Chris,
>
> > My expectations of a Netra wouldn't be terribly high, either; they
> > seem to exist as a product so that people that need a cheap Sun box
> > have an option. They are mostly running IDE disk, and the latest
> > IA-32 hardware is likely to have newer faster interface options.
>
> Neither are ours ... we bought an array of 1U Netras as a dot-com closeout.
> At $330 per machine including OS, they were a darned good deal, and with 4 of
> them the redundancy makes up for the lack of individual server performance.
I am sure they would run much better with linux on them rather than solaris..
Bye
Shridhar
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