Re: Platform Options

A few comments:
NT is not ready for production. Don't do it. Unix on RISC System/6000 may seem cheap at first but as you scale, it will cost you a fortune.
Solaris can scale pretty well so you could start with a cheaper box and upgrade as required. I personally am a Sun bigot. HP is reliable but performance is not so great. Hence their offer to give you hardware for a piece of the action. Really, you should profile your application to determine the type of architecture that is best suited for it. Then see which vendor best meets that spec. Also, you don't mention disks. EMC, Network app, Solid state devices, OEM what?

Also, you could contact each of the vendors and ask them for their opinion on how you should size and architect your solution. They each have competentcy centers.

<ray_mrayan_at_my-dejanews.com> wrote in message news:7g0qmh$g8f$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com...
> I am in the process of recommending a solution for an application that
> could involve a huge number of transactions (upwards of 15 million on
certain
> days) with support for a small number of concurrent users.
>
> The database will be 100-200 GB within 30 days, possibly peaking at 500 GB
in
> 18 months. There will be heavy disk i/o and need for high availabilty (>
> 98%).
>
> System cost will be an important issue but will not be the deciding
factor. I
> beleive the application will generate enough revenue to pay for itself
> because we could add more functionality to bring in additional revenue,if
the
> system is really expensive. Performance is a very important factor.
>
> Due to several other app specs,(I have done some basic tpc analysis, also)
I
> have chosen Oracle as the RDBMS. Now some of the hardware platform choices
> appear to be:
>
> Unix on RISC System/6000
> Solaris on Enterprise 6500 Server
> NT on ProLiant 6500
> NT on ProLiant 5000
>
> I was wondering if anyone could share some of their experiences using
Oracle
> with these systems.
>
> Thanks !
>
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Received on Mon Apr 26 1999 - 12:37:18 CDT