Re: Are most DBA jobs on UNIX or Mainframe, not NT?

From: Abigail <abigail_at_fnx.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 22:03:06 GMT
Message-ID: <uKTb3.148$zR4.4676@client>

Philip Chan (philipc_at_i-cable.com) wrote on MMCXVIII September MCMXCIII in <URL:news:7kessi$h1g3_at_rain>:
++ I wouldn't be surprised if Linux runs better than Solaris for the same
++ hardware, as
++ you should see how quick this OS evolve. Solaris server may look better in
++ performance because of the hardware differences. In tradition the machines
++ from
++ the big Unix vendors like HP and Sun all have much better memory bus speed
++ comparing to Intel motherboards, and Linux performance spec on the Alpha
++ platform
++ would be very interesting to me.

Linux claims to work on both the Intel platform, and the Sparc platform, so which hardware differences are you talking about?

But how well is Linux doing an say, an 8 CPU machine?

Abigail Received on Tue Jun 22 1999 - 17:03:06 CDT