You get better support from Sun (or so I've heard) if you buy the SPARC
version.  And of course, performance is generally better on less cheap Sun
hardware.

--fission

On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Thomas Michael Wanka wrote:

> On 8 Apr 2000, at 15:51, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > I'd say they didn't chose the rigth machine. The only reason I still
> > buy Suns is to run Solaris (because of commercial Apps). Otherwise,
> > there are better and cheaper machines available (PCs, powermac and
> > alphas).
> 
> Does Solaris for i386 not perform well or is there any other reason 
> to go for the sparc?
> 
> mike
>