Re: Intel Solaris vs Linux for Oracle

I am not really speaking from much experience myself, but as I understand it there a different 'builds' of Solaris for different Sun Hardware anyway. I have not heard of any differentiation between these builds or issues related to this fact.

As far as Sun's advertising goes, they try and make a good job of backwards and forwards compatibilty between OS versions so presumeably they do this amongst the different platform-issues of their OS as well.

When it comes to installation, Oracle 8i on Solaris appears (according to the installation manual) to require the least amount of work e.g. setting environmental variables, file paths and so on compared to the other Unices (SCO, DG-UX, Linux). This indicates to me that it will certainly be fairly easy to get it working with a bit of work. (Certainly more easily than Linux).

I think there are other factors counting against Linux however. There is no journaling file system (as far as I know, kernel 2.2). This could impact recovery time if you have an OS crash.

Last but not least - Solaris is simply free to use. The only exceptions are if you have a box with more than 8 CPUs. As long as you pay the media and shipping costs (less than $100) its yours forever.

On cost terms then, Solaris and Linux are identical. But with Solaris you get pedigree. And not to forget, Solaris is the 'home' platform for Oracle.

David P.

Reinhard Schlager wrote:
>
> Is this also true for Solaris on X86 ?
> \Reinhard
>
> DNP wrote:
> >
> > Passing on the advice of Philip Greenspun (if you don't know who he is I
> > would keep that fact quiet) :-
> >
> > Oracle Developers have Sun Solaris running on their desks.
> >
> > Solaris is the 'home' platform for Oracle. It gets built on Solaris
> > first, then ported to all other operating systems.
> >
> > In addition, the fastest problem resolution times occur when the problem
> > is Oracle on Solaris, because there's no delay in putting the fix
> > through the porting teams.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > From my experience, Linux is pretty immature. Gnome is basically
> > ridiculous when it comes to stability.
> >
> > More importantly - I wouldn't trust an Oracle instance on Linux because
> > the installs can be unreliable. You could be setting yourself up for
> > problems down the line.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > My advice - go for Solaris 8 (out now)
> >
> > David P.
> >
> > Glasgow, Scotland
> >
> > ====================================================================
> >
> > vhs1998_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Choosing between Sol x86 and Linux for Oracle deployment, what would be
> > > the preferred choice in terms of speed and stability ?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > svc
> > >
> > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > > Before you buy.
Received on Tue Mar 28 2000 - 00:00:00 CST