Donna (I mean, donna) correctly states :" - don't even think of 'server
consolidation'. single server/single app
is very much the reality in unix-land."
You can also bank on buying some servers to help *spread* the load to
all of those app servers.
Ray Shahan
-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of donna garverick
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 5:32 PM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] 3000 to 9000 Conversion - Experiences?
Feasibility?
> Re:
>
> Has anyone taken HP up on their offer for the free conversion of
> their A or N class to an HP-UX server? We probably won't go
> this route....
i sure hope you don't, it might be known as a career-threatening
decision :-)
way back when...when a- and n-class systems were new-ish and (some)
folks had the blissful idea that moving from mpe to hp-ux was a piece
o'cake, hp's offer almost sorta kinda made sense.
but....a couple of thoughts....
- several people have already pointed out that in unix-land, those
boxes are (more-or-less) obsolete.
- that big honkin' mpe n-class? it's a low-end, wheezy, sputtering
unix system.
- there's a radically different mind-set in many unix shops regarding
servers. they're commodity items. you get 'em...you burn through
their horsepower...and you replace them a few years down the road for
something even bigger yet. very different from mpe shops, where we
tend to regard our servers as investments. we'll take 7-10 years to
write the asset off.
- don't even think of 'server consolidation'. single server/single app
is very much the reality in unix-land.
<sigh> - d
Donna Garverick, HP-CSA Sr. System Programmer
dgarverick -at- longs -dot- com
925-210-6631 Longs Drug Stores
Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are.
"Ulysses", A. Tennyson
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