RE: SPARC-III v Alpha

The whole point is a bit moot now that Alpha is a dead platform.

Compaq sold the Alpha technology to Intel. As far as HP's continued support for Alpha, consider that HP is in a VERY competitive business; Unix makes up only a small part of its bottom line; and it is currently sitting on three Unix platforms: The old HP/UX boxes; the (supposed) new Itanium platform (so they say, but I remain skeptical); and the Alpha platform that it inherited. Even if Carly herself walked in and swore up and down that HP will continue to support the Alpha, I would insist that there is no way HP is going to commit resources to supporting three Unix platforms. Right now, I think HP is busy holding its finger to the wind and actively consulting The Magic 8 Ball and a Ouija board to determine its future Unix direction.

We use Alpha here. I came to this shop from a predominantly Sun/Aix environment. I can say that Compaq's handling of the Alpha/Tru64 platform make it the only version of Unix that makes NT look good. My opinion is -- and this is just an opinion -- that any performance "enhancements" that were achieved by the Compaq bunch were done so in the same way you would do it with your PC: Overclock the bejeezus out of everything with the accompanying reduction of stability and component life. I am convinced that the latest Alpha technology is three year old tweaking of five year old Alpha technology.

(Hope I didn't scuff up the soap box too much.)

And as long as I am at it here:
ps -eo args | nawk -F_ 'NF == 3 && /ora_smon_/ {print $3}'

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hemant K Chitale [mailto:hkchital_at_singnet.com.sg]
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 8:19 AM
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> Subject: SPARC-III v Alpha
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> Does anyone have benchmark or comparative figures for Sun
> SPARC v Compaq
> (thenewhp) Alpha
> for Oracle Databases ? I found some benchmark figures for
> Datawarehouses
> at the
> Oracle website but not for OLTP [then again, the machines
> configured for those
> benchmarks were extra-large machines !].
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