Re: Switch to Solaris

From: Rich Teer (rich.teer@rite-group.com)
Date: 04/04/03


From: Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 21:10:06 GMT

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, James wrote:

> I would have liked to purchase a Sun Microsystem Machine with the Solaris
> Operating System, However the computing machines are priced at Enterprise
> level. as £9,500 was one of the cheapest workstations. Ideally I wanted to

If you want to buy new, look for the Sun Blade 100 or 150. ABout
a tenth of the price you suggest.

> experience the UNIX environment with a SPARC machine, would there be an
> alternative on buying a SPARC based macine with Solaris to learn UNIX.

Ebay is always a good option is you want to buy used.

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