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How to get away from Sun hardware?
Hey all,
I work for a company that specializes in learning management hosting. We use J2EE learning management systems (LMS) like Plateau and Docent. As such, we are forced to use Weblogic, iPlanet, etc...
My senior engineer recently told me that we originally went all Sun hardware (SunFire v210 for web and lms hosting, SunFire 280R for Oracle, StorEdge for fiber-channel storage) because that's what we were guaranteed would work best. But Sun hardware is seriously expensive and we would like to cut costs.
We can go Linux if we want for the database and storage array. We are stuck with Solaris for the LMS hosting (the sissies that make the LMS won't support Linux). In thumbing through a few of the Linux magazines I get I noticed a crapload of what could be comparable hardware platforms for Linux. But how do you tell what is REALLY worth it?
I mean, with Sun, you know it's going to be a solid platform (you get what you pay for, no?).
Being the die-hard Linux and do-it-yourselfer that I am, I believe we can get more bang for our buck. Perhaps a Quad Opteron platform for the database and a dual Xeon or so for the storage array. But what distributor or manufacturer can I trust?
Who out there is creating Linux-friendly hardware that competes with Sun? Which of them would you trust to replace Sun platforms?
Cheers!
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