Hi,

Why SUN Hardware cost high?
You may say they are powerful. "powerful" means high RAm ?
high processing cacpacity ?

suppose consider 1 assembled pc ( whitebox)
with p-4 , 2 GB RAM , SCSI drive

will it equal to any server range products of SUN ?
( except their software/hardware support)

if "yes", then we are paying for brand name?


Consider whitebox PC mentiond as above, we can run database server or webserver
for hundred of users with out problem.

WHat SUn servers will provide more than whitebox pc?
What are those big big racks or shelfs at websites of data centers

can anyone please explain me difference in Server and pC or workstation
except more RAM,Processor or Storage capacity?

- thanks for your time

Can you be more specific on Sun models you find expensive ?
The range od H/W sold by Sun is pretty wide, and there is I think not that much overlap with white box PCs.

If you are talking about SPARC hardware, yes it is expensive. Many people say that.
Perhaps other Sun servers are expensive as well.

On the other hand, Sun hardware is not a mass market product. They are built for reliability
and stability. They are not built for usage as toys or gaming stations. You certainly will be able
to put together your own PC cheaper, even one which is faster, but you still won't have the service and reliability
of a Sun server.

There is something to say for an operating system that is carefully matched to the hardware. So many computer
problems come from incompatibilies with hardware.

Ekkume