Data center costs are less with Sun?

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21 Feb 2006

I was watching that speech by Marc Andreessen that prompted the Ning visit because I wanted to hear what he had to say about reducing hosting costs by using Sun hardware with Solaris instead of Linux on whitebox hardware.

Andreessen’s contention is that the reduced power consumption needs of Sun hardware makes it nearly half the price of Linux on whitebox. Sun’s Jonathan Swartz just posted an email from Andreessen that adds more details to those claims.

avidmoonlighter
December 12, 2006 11:22 AM

Then, what are the TCO comparisons?

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