Re: Oracle and Intel/Solaris

The feature set of Solaris (8 at least) is quite similar between Intel and Sparc.

No boot manager though, but what can you expect when you need a Sun PROM for this!

Surely it all comes down to the quality of the hardware.

And the quality of the device drivers interfacing the OS to the metal.

But that's two areas of technoligical risk (on Intel) that you might be able to circumvent if you went for Sparc (the natural home for not only Solaris but Oracle as well -- Oracle is after all actually made by people running Sun Sparcs to do their coding).

What price availabilty? Greater than the difference in price between Intel and Sparc for the same performance - almost certainly yes.

David P.

Oracle Certified DBA.

Juan Carlos Rodríguez wrote:
>
> Hello !!
>
> We are planning to migrate our Oracle database from a Alpha VMS platform to
> a Intel Solaris platform, but we have some questions about reliability.
> Is there anyone running Oracle8 with 200-300 concurrent users in a OLTP
> database? What about Intel Solaris?, is it reliable for an high availability
> system?, or is better to try a Sparc Solaris, HP-UX or Alpha Unix ?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> JCARLOS
Received on Wed May 17 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT