RE: HP vs SUN for a UNIX box

From: Babich , Sergey <SBabich_at_handexmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 06:01:11 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003F5A1D.20020121054522@fatcity.com>

Hi, Dennis,
Just got back to work and found your message. It's a shame, but I don't know what Lawson is. Well, I used to be a chemical engineer in Soviet Union and didn't know Oracle existed... Anyway, I appreciate your reply. As far as that box, it's supposed to be a box for our main production. We have a pretty simple financial application, but huge OLTP and A LOT of reports. There's no programming except for my short scripts which I create to extend the app functionality (it is VERY old). The company is very lax on investments. Nonetheless, they're contemplating a switch to UNIX, and that I call a major move! Let's see what happens. Thanks for your reply again. Best regards,
Sergey

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Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 5:16 PM

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Subject:        RE: HP vs SUN for a UNIX box

Sergey - One factor you may want to consider is the timeframe of your decision. If it is just a decision for your Lawson box, then that isn't so critical. It is pretty easy to move Lawson from one system to another.

Last fall we were looking at making a decision for all our systems. We are on Compaq Tru64, and that doesn't have a long future ahead of it. The META Group advice was that only three operating systems can be considered to have a stable future:

MS W2K
Linux
Solaris Most of the other Unix vendors are facing the next generation of computer chip architecture. I don't believe that HP is investing in the next generation itself, but will be switching to the new Intel 64-bit chips. Based on that advice, we chose Solaris because W2K and Linux are not up to the same standards as Solaris today. To repeat, we are looking at a lot of programming beyond Lawson, so our decision was based on more than simply purchasing the next box. We will have our Lawson system on Tru64 for several more years. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 3:25 PM
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Thank you, Paul, I'll forward it to my boss... Anyone else to add to it? Thank you very much,
Sergey Babich

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 3:55 PM

To:     Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject:        RE: HP vs SUN for a UNIX box

Stay with HP. It's a hell of a lot more reliable, and does not require anywhere near the # of patches, and its patches work far more often that Sun's. I've done 5 years with each, and there's no question that HP is superior.

Thank you,

Paul Sherman
DBA
voice - 781-501-4143 (office)
fax - 781-278-8341 (office)
email - psherman_at_elcom.com

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 3:00 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Our shop is switching from HP to Sun. No one can tell me why. There must be a cost savings somewhere.

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 12:51 PM
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Hi, dear listers,
My boss has decided to switch production to a UNIX box and now he's asking me for a recommendation between HP and SUN. I am a newbee to UNIX (to put it the softest way). I've heard people say HP is better, but need more than that...
The DB itself is about 40G on RAID (currently on Windoze 2k). Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Sergey Babich
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