Re: Oracle server on Solaris x86

From: John D Groenveld <groenvel_at_cse.psu.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 1998 17:46:48 -0400
Message-ID: <6hr188$c0s$1@tholian.cse.psu.edu>

In article <m33ef33wgt.fsf_at_fleck.princetontele.com>, Chip Christian <chip_at_princetontele.com> wrote:
>My employer has decided he wants to move away from proprietary
>architectures such as HP's and SPARCs, to embrace open standards
>such as Intel (yeah, whatever). Until yesterday he was totally
>sold on NT, but has since been convinced to look at Solaris.

The new Sun's have PCI buses, though faster. I'd imagine that the new PA-RISC machine do also. I think you should AMD or Cyrix whether they think the Pentium 2 is an open architecture.

If you must be a closed Intel-inside shop, Sunsoft might be able to provide you Oracle benchmarks under Solaris x86 and NT. Oracle's Intel UNIX group might have that data too, but you'd be hard pressed to get that info from your Oracle sales rep since they're supposed to be platform neutral.

John
groenveld_at_acm.org Received on Fri Apr 24 1998 - 16:46:48 CDT