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Re: Is Oracle for Solaris x86 ready for prime time?

From: James Foronda <James.Foronda_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:39:25 -0500
Message-id: <4562046D.3030003@sun.com>


Jim,

A few points:

http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2005_nov/solaris10.html

HTH, James
http://jforonda.vintarinian.com

> From: *Jim Newman* <jim.newman_at_iovation.com
> <mailto:jim.newman_at_iovation.com>>
> Date: Nov 20, 2006 1:58 PM
> Subject: RE: Is Oracle for Solaris x86 ready for prime time?
> To: Alex Gorbachev <gorbyx_at_gmail.com <mailto:gorbyx_at_gmail.com>>
> Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org <mailto:oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
>
> Thanks, though it's too late on our release decision. We've been on
> 10gR2 in Solaris for about 9 months now, and it has been a surprisingly
> stable environment. I am concerned that Solaris x86 might not be as
> solid. I remember a lot of ORA-600s from the 8i days on that platform.
>
> I'm not hearing any recent negatives about Oracle on Solaris x86, so
> maybe my fears are unfounded.
>
> Jim Newman
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Gorbachev [mailto:gorbyx_at_gmail.com <mailto:gorbyx_at_gmail.com>]
> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 8:01 PM
> To: Jim Newman
> Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org <mailto:oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
> Subject: Re: Is Oracle for Solaris x86 ready for prime time?
>
> My reply might be a bit aside from the question. But...
> If you are looking at 10gR2 for critical production systems than you
> are amongst pioneers anyway. One can argue that they are running 10g
> in production for a year or more but definitions of criticality vary.
> I also saw the speculations flowing that it was a political decision
> to step away from Solaris x86 starting with Oracle 9i and than Sun
> realized that this was a lousy decision.
> All IMHO.
>
> On 11/16/06, Jim Newman <jim.newman_at_iovation.com
> <mailto:jim.newman_at_iovation.com>> wrote:
> > We are looking into switching from Sparc Solaris to Solaris x86 due to
> the allure of "cheaper faster" hardware. I'm a little concerned about
> running our mission critical databases on Solaris x86. Oracle's
> offering for this platform went away entirely for 9i, and I heard the
> issue was that there were just too many different chips to support.
> It's back, but I wonder if it's really a safe bet. We'll be running 10g
> R2 with most of the goodies, Streams, Data Guard, partitioning, and
> possibly RAC. Anyone running Oracle Solaris x86 that can relieve (or
> confirm) my fears?
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Alex Gorbachev
>
> The Pythian Group
> Sr. Oracle DBA
>
> http://www.pythian.com/blogs/author/alex/
> http://blog.oracloid.com
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