Good question ... I don't buy that hardware. There's another entire
department that does only that. I just write programs.

I suggest analyzing your specific application needs and determining what
kind of metrics you need before settling on brands and architectures.
You may do better with a rack of 64 bit Opteron's, depending on your
needs.

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 14:32 -0400, Leyne, Sean wrote:
> Dave,
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> > For my application, Firebird compiled for current generation IBM
> > processors (P5?) running under linux on a 9000 series application
> > server with a 10G fiber channel SAN DASD would be the place I would
> > start, if I were looking for something of this scale and had decided
> > to use Firebird.
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> What brand of SAN support 10Gb Fibre Channel, the fastest I've seen from
> IBM/EMC has been 4Gb.
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