Re: AMD vs Xeon 64 bit

Hello there,

I think it is great that nowadays that effective HW exists. I tend to recommend x86 platform to my customers as well.

But I can't understood why customers still buying HW based on RISC CPU-s. There have to be something good about RISCs beside politics and good mng relationship with vendors' representatives. Can anybody advice ? (Anjo?)

Please don't tell me that is is about skills that particular customer have on board.
There is no that significant difference between Linux and Unix. The savings are dramatic. 1M-30k ~ = 1M
Even if a customer would invest 10% of savings in people (education) i believe the difference will be covered.

Can you advice any field where RISCs will bit x86 ?

Thank you in advance,
Yury

On 9/5/06, Anjo Kolk <anjo.kolk_at_oraperf.com> wrote:
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> Dl 585 is the one to go for. Buy the fastest and most memory that you can
> and you will be smiling the whole day. I just advised a customer to replace
> their 16 cpu SUN sparc box with a 4 CPU dual core Opteron. The sun box was 1
> million dollar, the opteron costed around 30K dollar. They went live over
> the weekend and and they are very happy :-)
>
> Anjo.
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> On 9/5/06, Juan Miranda <j.miranda_at_sermatica.es> wrote:
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> > Hi
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> > We will buy an new server.
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> > SO will be RHEL 4 AS/ES
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> > Alternatives:
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> > 1) HP 585 4x AMD Opteron
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> > 2) HP 580 4x Xeon
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> > Any reference, idea, experience about these 2 alternatives ???
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> > What about SGA limit ?
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> > I think I can make a huge SGA with AMD64 (no 3 GB limit),
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> > Do I have this limit in Xeon 64 bit ?
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> > Thanks.
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> --
> Anjo Kolk
> Owner and Founder OraPerf Projects
> tel: +31-577-712000
> mob: +31-6-55340888

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