Re: Enterprise 8i on Linux or Solaris?

From: <steve_at_projectarena.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:04:36 GMT
Message-ID: <8t9dld$fje$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

In article <8t52fa$utp$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>, daryl_at_McGregor.bc.ca wrote:

> Linux boxes tend to be cheaper, both for hardware reasons and Oracle
> Licensing.

Is Oracle licensing really cheaper? The Oracle site indicates pricing based on either user count or CPU speed.

We've found that our 450MHz processors outperform 550Mz Pentiums running iPlanet. May be apples and oranges using iPlanet to determine Oracle performance, but that's what we found anyway.

If you're supporting a few concurrent transactions, then it probably wouldn't matter which platform you use. If you plan on supporting more transactions, now or in the future, SPARC/Solaris would be the way I'd recommend. Oracle and Solaris scale well over multiple processors better than Linux does right now. You would not have to worry about a platform switch and the lost knowledge that goes with it.

Steve
Project Arena

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Before you buy. Received on Thu Oct 26 2000 - 09:04:36 CDT