Paul ,
ORACLE switched from solaris to HP-UX somewhere in mid
2000 for their tier I platform. ALso I think at this
time compaq and HP are the only true 64 bit
architectures available. That of course swings the
scale in HPs favour...:)
Cheers,
RS
--- Paul Vallee <dbalist_at_pythian.com> wrote:
> 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 ...
> >
> >
> > Bunyamin K. Karadeniz
> > Oracle DBA / Developer
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> > is inversely proportional to that of its DBA.
> >
> >
>
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