Re: Oracle on AIX for Power

From: Gabriel Hanauer <gabriel.hanauer_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:20:40 -0300
Message-ID: <CAOOrn=F6-kf3L9Fau-XpBtPhehgNS0t3tVGKYr+=DkBKUu+mfg_at_mail.gmail.com>

I have 35 servers running Oracle on AIX Power64.

Very stable and robust combination, indeed.

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Amaral, Rui <Rui.Amaral_at_tdsecurities.com>wrote:

> **
> I would agree with that. A lot of oracle on AIX where I am and in the
> surrounding companies in my area. Maybe a little higher in percentage from
> what Tim mentioned ... but not by much.
>
> Rui Amaral
> Database Administrator
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Tim Gorman
> *Sent:* Friday, August 26, 2011 1:10 PM
> *To:* patrice.boivin_at_gmail.com; ORACLE-L
> *Subject:* Re: Oracle on AIX for Power
>
> Patrice,
>
> Just based on my own personal observations visiting several different IT
> shops every year, I'd guess that AIX represents at least 15-20% of Oracle
> RDBMS market share. My last two customers (i.e. my two main customers for
> this current year) are AIX on Power64, for example. Can't quote that
> percentage with any authority, but suffice to say that AIX is a big port for
> Oracle, and always has been.
>
> And the reverse is true: IBM has long recognized that the Oracle RDBMS
> pushes a lot of their iron, and has been a good partner to Oracle, even
> though they also compete with DB2/UDB. Let's just say that the DB2 folks
> often resent the IBM hardware sales folks, because the hardware folks are
> often bigger fans of Oracle than DB2, because Oracle sells more servers.
>
> What's even more strange is that DB2 runs on Solaris, so IBM and Oracle
> have a curious intertwined relationship that kind of makes one blush, if you
> think about it biologically... :-)
>
> Hope this helps...
>
> -Tim
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* Patrice sur GMail [mailto:patrice.boivin_at_gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, August 26, 2011 10:52 AM
> *To:* 'ORACLE-L'
> *Subject:* Oracle on AIX for Power
>
> I am wondering how often Oracle is run on that platform.
>
> Wouldn't Oracle mostly be written first for linux / solaris / win32, then
> ported to the other platforms?
>
>
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