Greg, I picked up one of these with Solaris 8 from my former employer and installed a demo version of Oracle on it with the intent of developing java apps. My complaints are: 1) it is noisy, especially with the external drives running. 2) it has 500 mb of RAM and Oracle uses every free bit. 3) it runs slowly compared to other workstation choices. MySQL on my Linux PIII-450 runs much faster. But Sun 21" monitors are great (and may cause hernia problems if you're not careful). I guess your choice should depend in part on what you want to do with it and the cost. For general use I would probably pick up a new or used AMD box and install Linux instead. Good luck! Dave -----Original Message----- From: koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz]On Behalf Of Greg Lambert/Amigos Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 10:08 AM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Sun Ultra 1 - Good or Bad? Okay.... I have a person that is getting rid of about 30 Sun Microsystems Ultra 1 Creator 3D machines (5 years old). Anyone knowledgeable about these boxes to tell me to "grab 'em" or "run Greg, run!!!" ? They do come with some sweet 21 inch monitors.... ;-) -Greg Greg Lambert, JD, MLIS Project Manager Amigos Library Services, Inc. 5000 Gulf FWY Building 9 - Univ. Business Park Houston, Texas 77023-4600 713/923-2373 x225 office 877/707-1577 toll-free 713/923-2192 fax 281/433-9145 cell lambert@amigos.org http://www.amigos.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha