On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 10:14:44PM +0200, PFC wrote:
>
> >Uhm... stick with commodity CPUs?
>
> Hehe, does this include Opterons ?
Absolutely. Heck, it wouldn't surprise me if a single model # of Opteron
sold more than all Power CPUs put together...
> Still, I looked on the "customize your server" link someone posted
> and it's amazing ; these things have become cheaper while I wasn't
> looking...
> You can buy 10 of these boxes with raptors and 4 opteron cores and 8
> gigs of RAM for the price of your average marketing boss's car...
> definitely makes you think doesn't it.
And if you spend that much on CPU for a database, you're likely to be
pretty sadly disappointed, depending on what you're doing.
> Juts wait until someone equates the price in man-hours to fix/run a
> borken Dell box...
Would probably sound like a Mastercard commercial...
Not having to babysit your servers every day: Priceless
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