"Andrew Hardy" <junkmail@[127.0.0.1]> a écrit dans le message de
news:c7nm36$5qe$1@sun-cc204.lut.ac.uk...
> Hi,
>
> We're using an E450: 'Sun Enterprise 450 (4 X UltraSPARC-II 296MHz)'
> with 1Gb of RAM as a development platform.
>

We recently replaced a similar UE 450 2Gb RAM machine by a Sun 280R (1.2 Ghz
single CPU, 5Gb RAM) and found the machine to perform as good (if not
better) than the 450. Technology (eg. disks) as improved a lot since the
450, that gives a good boost in performance.

I would not run anything else than solaris or Linux on the Intel Platform,
otherwise, your CPU will be busy managing the GUI and useless stuff instead
of your database. But other people may actually like windows for whatever
reason (maybe they have MSFT stock :-)