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Re: Solaris vs. Linux sun vs intel ???

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 10:03:45 +0100
Message-ID: <3acae375$0$15025$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net>

Tell me how did you work out the TCO of Sun vs Linux?

--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"Bastiaan Schaap" <bschaap_at_desyde.nl> wrote in message
news:lgBy6.13$HW.629_at_psinet-eu-nl...

> Everyone mentions IO bandwith, performance and prices here, but I always
> prefer to compare such different systems in terms of TCO. (total cost of
> ownership). It is true that the initial investment that has to be made for
> the sun/solaris platform is much bigger, no doubt. However these costs are
> most of the time only a fraction of the total cost a company has to spend
in
> order to get a system working or (even more important) keep it working. My
> experience is that the information and support available for Oracle on
> linux/intel platforms is hard to find, and most of the time very specific
to
> a certain distro, kernel, etc. So the total cost for the maintenance of
> these machines is MUCH higher than for Oracle on the sun/solaris platform.
> Keep in mind that Oracle themselves use sun/solaris as their development
> environment (!), and a lot of support concerning Oracle and Sun hardware
is
> widely available and very specific. Currently we are running 32 databases
> on linux, and we're in the process of migrating *all* of them to Sun
> enterprise 2500's. After carefully determining our TCO of the linux boxes,
> we've come to the conclusion that maintenance costs are actually much
lower
> for the sun/solaris platform (over a 5yr period)...
>
> HTH,
>
> --
> Bastiaan Schaap
> Desyde BV
> bschaap_at_desyde.nl
> Tel 06 - 51998277
> Fax 035 - 5430547
> http://www.desyde.nl
> ________________________________
>
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>
> "sdenney" <sdenney_at_healthetech.com> wrote in message
> news:BAAB850F2DE6D553.D3E938F3FC50628C.9F7C5EDA055BF845_at_lp.airnews.net...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Does anyone have any information on Oracle on Linux/intel as compared to
> > unix(Solaris/sun)? Or would you know where I could get this sort of
> > information? We are running smoothly in development using a small sun
> > machine but IT wants to look into switching to Linux on intel machines
are
> > there pitfalls?
> >
> > Help is appreciated,
> >
> > S
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Wed Apr 04 2001 - 04:03:45 CDT

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