RE: WHICH UNIX FOR ORACLE?

I'm very suprised no one has said Linux. ?? It is one of the first tier platforms for Oracle now, isn't it? I also thought I read on this list a while back that Solaris was no longer the dev platform?

Guess it all depends on what strengths you are looking for. For my employer, who is CHEAP, it was Windows. Who cares that it's not as stable as I would like. You should have seen the VP grin at me with this patronizing smile when he said, "I'll approve $35,000 for this project!", like he had done me a huge favor. I wanted to growl.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Vallee [SMTP:dbalist_at_pythian.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 1:10 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: WHICH UNIX FOR ORACLE?
>
> Might as well get my two cents in... :-)
>
> 1. Solaris
> Tied for 2... AIX, Tru64, HP/UX
>
> (leaving NUMA out of the equation for now. If you like NUMA, then look
> into
> the status of IBM's acquisition of Sequent, I'm out of touch with that
> right
> now.)
>
> Different hardware solutions from different vendors have different
> performance, stability and cost characteristics, and so I'll assume that
> all
> vendors have an appropriate solution on these factors, this may not be the
> case.
>
> With these assumptions, the primary factor for me is the timeliness of the
> availability of releases, patches and patchsets. Sun Solaris 32-bit is the
> winner on this factor on the grounds that it is Oracle's internal
> development platform. All other platforms are ported from Sun Solaris
> 32-bit. When that changes, my recommendation would of course also change,
> as
> it did when Oracle moved away from Digital/VMS.
>
> Anyone who has been in a situation where a bug was causing service failure
> and who heard that a patch was available for Solaris but not your platform
> knows where I'm coming from on this one.
>
> Note: for the exact same reason, never use 64-bit Oracle on Solaris unless
> you absolutely need the very-large-sga support. 64-bit Oracle on Solaris
> is
> slow to get patches and releases.
>
> Best,
> Paul
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>
> What are you planning..? A religious war..:)
> well..here is my 2 cents,IMHO
> 1. HP-UX
> 2. SOlaris
> 3. AIX
>
> in the order of preference. I have worked with all
> three and I found HP machines to be reliable and
> HP-UX easy to work with. This is not to say solaris is
> not but I had some nightmare stroies to tell about the
> bugs and quality of support from SUN. Again this is
> only my opinion and as everybody knows OS is ,to some
> extent ,a matter of personal choice also.
> ( Running to put on flame proof suit..:) )
>
> Cheers,
> RS
> --- "Bunyamin K. Karadeniz"
> <bunyamink_at_havelsan.com.tr> wrote:
> > We are searching about which unix is best ?
> > We will apply 9ias and 8.1.7 DB . plus Oracle
> > Portal.
> > Can you direct me to a link for comparison about
> > SOLARIS , AIX , HP-UX for performance and other
> > options ..
> > Thank you ...
> >
> >
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> >
> >
>
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