Re: Pentium or Risc processors for an Oracle Database?

From: Howard J. Rogers <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 06:14:29 +1000
Message-ID: <MaGp9.50934$g9.147756@newsfeeds.bigpond.com>

I was rather under the impression that the Alphas are all about to be dumped as a product line, as a result of the Compaq-HP merger.

Not entirely sure I would be paying big biccies for a soon-to-be-obsolete hardware platform.

Not entirely sure, either, why a different processor means better I/O. I would have thought that the I/O was the responsibility of the I/O sub-system, not the CPU.

Regards
HJR "Alex Gnaegi" <alex.gnaegi_at_freesurf.ch> wrote in message news:3da72a25$1_at_news.swissonline.ch...
> We are going to buy a server for an Oracle 9i Database on Unix with ~700
> concurrent users for an OLTP system. Some guys of my team recommand to get
> an Alpha server (4 or 6 processors on a cluster) because of better I/O
> access. Is it really a better solution than an Intel based? I'm not
> convinced by this propostion because of much higher costs with alpha
> systems.
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> What do you think above.
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> Alex
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Received on Fri Oct 11 2002 - 15:14:29 CDT