Hello,
We have a heterogenous network of DEC and SPARC machines.  So far the 
distribution is about equal.  (i.e., 1 DEC and 1 SPARC ;)).  We are 
looking to invest in new equipment and are considering the Sun SPARC 5 
110 MHz and the DEC 200 4/100 (which we already have one of).  We also 
have a Sun SPARC 20 multiprocessor.  The reason for our indecision is the 
fact that our SPARC is running Solaris 2.3 and we dont know how is the 
2.5 version.
In other words, the hardware is about equal (slight lean in favor of the 
DEC...) and so it would be the OS that would be the deciding factor.
What I am asking is peoples opinions (hopefully supported with 
experience) who have used both.  Also what these people would do if they 
were faced with our situation and why.
Keep in mind that our DEC is running NIS as the master server and also 
exporting NFS filesystems (the DEC is running DU 3.2c).  Issues such as 
support for NFS V3 in Solaris 2.5 come to mind...
I promise to summarize!
- Thank you!
Brad Block
Received on Sat Mar 30 1996 - 18:47:57 NZST