Re: Oracle9i on Intel vs UltraSPARC

"sal" <sal_at_codemaster.com> wrote in message news:87e15a44.0312200120.5dfa1ef0_at_posting.google.com... > "Bob Jones" <email_at_me.not> wrote in message news:<b89151660e6c31b4097245b6d2015cf2_at_news.teranews.com>...
> > "Greg Angevine" <gangevine_at_cognera.com> wrote in message
> > news:oFGEb.1583$Ur.63418_at_localhost...
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any strong words about Oracle9i on Itanium2 vs. on
same
> > > range SUN boxes? I'm trying to make up my mind on which is better, and
> > then
> > > which is most cost effecting. I'm trying to mitigate the OS as a
factor...
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help!
> > >
> > > Greg.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I will no doubt going with Sun boxes. If you have priced Itanium systems
on
> > the web, you will find they are actually more expensive. Bear in mind
still
> > a lot of software hasn't been ported to Itanium.
> >
> > It's hard not to talk about OSs when talking about hardware. After all
they
> > are what make the hardware useful. Solaris is definitely a better OS to
run
> > Oracle servers than Windows or Linux.

>
> Hi,
>
> Oracle 10g will run on Solaris for x86 platform.
> http://www.sun.com/smi/press/sunflash/2003-09/sunflash.20030908.3.html
>
> --
> SL

But Itanium is no x86. Received on Sat Dec 20 2003 - 10:13:05 CST