[Koha] Sun Ultra 1 - Good or Bad?

[David A. Jenne]

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 at lists.katipo.co.nz
[mailto:koha-admin at lists.katipo.co.nz]On Behalf Of Greg Lambert/Amigos
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 10:08 AM
To: koha at 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
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