>> anybody?
>
> Maybe tell what exact kinds of sparc64 - there are wildly different 
> machines, some of which should do pretty well these days and some ... 
> not.
>
> Maybe consider other facts like having one platform to maintain across 
> all machines, which would be a favour for Solaris.
>
>  - Hubert (mmm, Solaris :)

the MP machines are Ultra 2's and Ultra 60's as well as one Ultra 80 
(they all go Solaris).

the SP machines are Ultra 5's.

however, i run many machines on NetBSD (many different platforms), so i 
don't mind :)

cheers,

-- 
Timo Schoeler | http://macfinity.net/~tis | timo.schoeler@macfinity.net
//macfinity -- finest IT services | http://macfinity.net
Key fingerprint = F844 51BE C22C F6BD 1196  90B2 EF68 C851 6E12 2D8A

There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary 
and those who don't.