Which platform is better?

From: Paul R. Johnson <pjohnson_at_take.this.out.spasydell.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 21:07:05 GMT
Message-ID: <8nulgtkn24li454dfib8jhaqvhn2lkkn9g@4ax.com>

I currently am running Oracle 7.3.4 on AIX 4.3.1.0. We have this on a 3 processor 333mhz RS/6000 with 1gb ram. We a having occasional problems with performance, but nothing too bad. We are running a Point of Sale and scheduling application from Windows Terminal Server. There are usually 80-100 concurrent users on the system with only about half of them banging on it.

Our lease is up on the RS/6000 and we are considering 2 options:

Have an AIX expert audit the system for performance and add memory, disks, etc as necessary. Then have an Oracle DBA do the same. I am currently using a contract DBA. I think that we can get more out of this machine.
Buy an new NT/2000 server. This is where I would know what I was talking about and able to make recommendations. I am looking at a dual Xeon 700mhz/1mb cache, 2+gb ram, 8 9gb hard drives configured for RAID 10. This should be a speedy box.

We are probably going to migrate to 8.x in the near future. Which is better for the oracle version that we have now and the future?

Thanks for your help,

Paul

Paul R. Johnson
IT Manager
Spa Sydell
pjcace at yahoo dot com Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 16:07:05 CDT