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[Daniel.Veillard at w3.org (Daniel Veillard)]

>  DC> I'm hoping to purchase a 4-processor linux box with 512 MB RAM 
>  DC> and a few GB of SCSI disk space.  However, since I'll be 
>  DC> spending my money, I'd like to work out the operating system 
>  DC> issues on my Pentium uniprocessor machine first.
> 
> If it was the company's money, you should just get another Sun box.

  Could you justify  a bit ? The Linux-SMP mailling-list (where I 
redirected DC) has a fair amount of people using Quad PPros or
Quad Xeon in very intensive computations. Considering that such a
machine can be had for 25000$, and can certainly compete for CPU
power with Sun boxes costing a lot more, I just wonder.
  Or do you mean that on company's money is less is best spent
buying a branded Unix box, even if it's N times more expensive.

Daniel

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