Re: UltraSPARC versus AMD - Slowaris

From: Ben <bench(at)silentmedia(dot)com>
To: "Mohan, Ross" <RMohan(at)arbinet(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: UltraSPARC versus AMD - Slowaris
Date: 2005-04-26 20:43:55
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"bilked" is my new favorite word.

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Mohan, Ross wrote:

> Richly deserved IMNSHO. my current employer was bilked for many many months
> for a piece of crap E10K that barely outperforms a couple of AMD chips. But
> at many, many times the price. We finally upgraded/migrated to AIX/g5 chips
> and run what was run on 20 cpus on 2.
>
> If Sun pulls out of its slow Icarus dive to near-certain death, it'll be
> a miracle. ( And, I guess, that'd be "a good thing"; always nice to have a
> miracle. )
>

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