Re: Enterprise 8i on Linux or Solaris?

Thank you everybody for responding, this information is very helpful

Daryl

In article <8t9dld$fje$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   steve_at_projectarena.com wrote:
> In article <8t52fa$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 - 15:26:57 CDT