Re: Oracle 9i - intel box (linux) vs sparc box (solaris)

I'm a happy camper, running 9i on Linux Red Hat. Haven't had any trouble (besides the installation part), 'till now. It's been running for almost a month, without a reboot. YEAH! I support a Development environment on both Linux and W2K. In my opinion, Linux seems to handle the load/transactions much better then Microsoft's OS.

As far as comparing it to Sun Blade.... really can't answer that. I can only tell you that my experience with 9i on Linux, has been a good one.

Alex Ivascu
DBA "Giorgio Corani" <giorgio.corani_at_ama-mi.it> wrote in message news:a8hmvs$sdp0m$1_at_ID-138787.news.dfncis.de...
> Dear All,
> I ask you for a comparison between two different choices in order to set
up
> a oracle db server.
> The server will be mainly aimed to supplying data to a Sparc workstation,
> devoted to intensive numerical tasks.
> Data will be received once in the day and amount to about 7000-8000
> numerical values.
> A few users (up to 10) will query the db simultaneoulsy. Data repository
> will be mirrored through RAID technology.
> We are going to use oracle9i as DBMS.
> Since the load doesn't seem to be huge, I would to ask you:
> -could such db server perform well on an intel based machine, running
Linux?
> or is it better -in your opinion- to install it on a Solaris box, such as
> Sun Blade100?
> -does Oracle 9i work fine under Linux environment, or its stability and
> performance improves significantly under Solaris?
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> Regards,
> -Giorgio Corani
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Received on Thu Apr 04 2002 - 23:41:59 CST