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Price/performance?

Price/performance?

Posted Apr 12, 2008 1:06 UTC (Sat) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
Parent article: Cisco Set to Dominate Linux Market? (InternetNews)

Sanity check time.  Compare the price of a Dell or HP commodity Linux server to the price of a
Cisco router with similar CPU and RAM.  Now keep buying servers from your existing server
vendor, run as much as you can on the inexpensive machines, and use special-purpose router
hardware when you really, really need it.  Check Vyatta and Untangle before you decide that
you need it, though.


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Price/performance?

Posted Apr 12, 2008 2:09 UTC (Sat) by fjf33 (subscriber, #5768) [Link]

And there is always devil-linux!!!

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