Re: What kind of server should we buy for Oracle?

I've worked with Oracle on Serveral Backends including NT, SCO, Sun, RS/6000....

You should get a Unix Box for that price not NT. Which is what I assume you want. I personally
think the best Oracle/Unix combination is with Sun Hardware. Many other DBA's agree others would argue
the HP boxes and Oracle make the best combo. Either way I don't think you can go wrong. Honestly
going with any of the major unix flavors should be safe. I personally don't like Intel/Unix combo's. I've
had a bad experiences with them. That's my personal opinion.

For Benchmark & Price/Performance ratings got to <http://www.tpc.org>. Its the Transaction Processing Performance
council web site...You should get all the your questions aswered at this site and then some.

hope this helps

Greg Vitetzakis gvitetz_at_cam.org
Senior DBA

Domagoj Karnicnik <domagoj.karnicnik_at_po.tel.hr> wrote in article <34d63762.6053786_at_news.tel.hr>...
> Hello!
>
> We are in the middle of transition from mVAX's and Cobol
> programs to Oracle client/server environment, and we still haven't
> bought any equipment. Could you please give me some hint what would be
> a wise choice considering price/performance ratio, and relialibility?
> Intel/SMP server and SCO? - what config? Is 256MB RAM enough?
> 2x, 4x, or more CPUs? What brand is the best?
> Maybe AlphaServer? HP-UX? IBM RS/6000?
> We can survive $80.000 investment.
>
> TIA,
>
> Domagoj Karnicnik, B.Sc.EE.
>
Received on Tue Feb 03 1998 - 00:00:00 CST