Re: Fantasy Oracle Implementation

"Chuck" <chuck_hamilton_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:9u5sp9$6h3mu$1_at_ID-85580.news.dfncis.de...
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> > How do you mean "the choice is AIX-RS/6000 best
> > value/performance."? We have about a half-dozen or so Sun boxes
> > and maybe 2 dozen AIX
> > boxes. (Not my choice by the way.) The AIX boxes cost about 5-6
> > times as much as an equally (or better) configured Sun box. For my
> > money, there's nothing better than Veritas/Oracle/Sun... Why do you
> > feel that AIX RS/6000 is the way to go?
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> Have you found Sun reliable? We've had bad experiences with the
> hardware and support to the end that we dumped them a year and a half
> ago. OTOH we've had no problems with AIX or IBM support. We've also
> found their clustering software to be the most reliable we've tried.
> Other's included Veritas and SGI. It fails over when it's supposed to
> and *only* when it's supposed to. I can't say I've experienced that
> with the others.
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Hi Chuck,

We've not experienced any problems with the Sun hardware that I am aware of. We have a few e220's, e250's, e420's, and e450's - nothing really heavy. Each only has a single instance/db with the largest db being 35G. Maybe we don't tax the hardware as much as some others may... OTOH, we haven't had any problems with the IBM stuff either. We are running SP2 frames and have a couple of Sharks for storage, so we are pretty well "in bed" with IBM. I was just surprised at what I perceived to be a large cost difference. An RS/6000 workstation was recently purchased for me that cost approx. $15,000 whereas the comparable Sun workstation I priced out came in at $3,500. Another thing is that we have had trouble finding some applications that run on AIX but never had trouble finding what we needed on Sun. IBM has been on site for three weeks now trying to get WebSphere Portal to work correctly, but can't seem to. But, I'm just a DBA, so I don't look at things from the same perspective as, say, our datacenter manager does. Anyway, I was just surprised to see someone say that AIX had the best performance/cost "rating". Perhaps it is like Chevy vs. Ford in some respects.

Sorry to hear you had bad experiences with Sun though...

Thanks,

-LM Received on Thu Nov 29 2001 - 21:29:33 CST