Solaris

We have an Ultra Enterprise 3000 with a Sparc Array 1010 lying around here acting as a coffee table in the server room. It was being used as a database server, but when a drive crumped, nobody knew how to get the array put back together, so some $250 per hour consultant wiped out all the data. The solution was, of course, to switch to MS SQL Server on i386 stuff and use the Sun machine as a coffee table.

It seem like a bit of a waste.

I am running my PostgreSQL database on a Dell PowerEdge 2400. What, advantages/disadvantages are there to learning Solaris and migrating my stuff over to the coffee table machine? Does the Dell fall under the heading of "cheap" (crummy) hardware that Tom alluded to causing corruption issues?

Ian Harding
Programmer/Analyst II
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department
iharding(at)tpchd(dot)org
(253) 798-3549