HP with HP-UX and Sun with Solaris. Both are highly common in England
and France whereas I never ran into an AIX box outside of this country
(though my experience is limited to a couple of Asian countries and the
previously mentioned European countries). Certainly price will become an
issue, but the support is top-notch. Ultimately, though, the cluster
idea should stay near the top of your requirements if growth is going to
be less painful. You may not have to start with a cluster, but a single
computer that can join a cluster easily will avoid growth pains.
Likewise, NAS is more feasible for clustering. If the price you
mentioned is a hard limit, I don't envy the hard choices that will
surely follow for the few requirements you stated. I can hit that limit
with a consumer grade x86 with a few Xeons, ECC RAM, and SCSI drives,
but I wouldn't call it robust or enterprise-grade. Depends on your
needs and hardware failure tolerance.
--
Jeff
My other computer is an abacus.
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