Re: Oracle 11i on HP or SUN? (not trying to starting a war)

I have to agree with Eric. One company I worked for went from Digital Unix, which we had had for years and liked, to HP-UX because it was the corporate standard of our new parent company. The problem was not with the canned software, Manugistics, but with the fact that we didn't know the hardware/operating system. We knew the DEC hardware guys very well as well as the guys at Colorado support. We knew who was good and who was new at the job. We had to build those relationships from scratch with HP. There was also the learning curb of figuring out a new product line. We were forever forgetting to order a cable or some other small part for the HP's.

I have had some experience with Sun, enough to know they are different from HP. There is not enough price difference to make up for the fact that you have to rebuild your entire infrastructure. You know things like backups, monitoring procedures, account creation procedures, printer add procedures, etc. Those are hidden costs you should add to your calculations. Unless you have a real good reason to move, stay put. Unix is unix from a user prospective. From a sys admin perspective, each one might as well be a totally different operating system.

Liz

"Eric Bowman" <Doc435_at_mindspring.com> wrote in message news:<a7il4q$9m4$1_at_slb5.atl.mindspring.net>...
> These two statements give your answer.
>
> > My problem is lack of experience actually running a SUN and most input
> > I get is based more on loyalty rather than subjective review.
>
> > We've been an HP shop for 5 years and I can truly say that we're
> > pretty happy with them. We've always run 24x7x4 support and have never
> > been left out in the cold.
>
> Go with the HP solution. I work for a vendor, and it is my job to spec out
> the systems for our solutions. Variations in performace, and even
> reliability, are more than compensated for by in house experience with a
> give solution, and positive vendor relationship. Our app is
> database/platform independent to a large degree, and I've put in systems on
> just about everything from intel servers running OS/2, to IBM 390s. Client
> satisfaction seems to be much higher when they stick with what they are
> familiar with, and with the vendors they allready like.
> -Eric Bowman-
Received on Tue Mar 26 2002 - 13:04:07 CST