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Re: native Oracle-port on Linux -- what would it take?

From: Jared Hecker <jared_at_hwai.com>
Date: 1998/01/05
Message-ID: <34B13901.69317C2F@hwai.com>#1/1

> [Peter Knaggs ext 63284 <pknaggs_at_us.oracle.com>]
>
> | My guess is it would perform about the same as it does on Solaris,
> | given the same hardware, so the problem would become how to price
> | the thing.

I disagree with this - less O/S overhead, and faster I/O, should make Oracle on Linux/Intel noticeably faster than on Solaris/Intel - though the speed race would probably go DG or Sequent but heck, their boxes aren't exactly PC's.

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Jared Hecker
jared_at_hwai.com
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