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"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
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> Greg Angevine wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Oracle, internally, has dumped all of their Sun hardware in favor
> of Linux on Dell. I think the cost-benefit curve favors Linux on
> Intel chips as a starting point. And will remain that way until
> the other hardware vendors figure out that operating systems and
> hardware have become a commodity.
>
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> Daniel Morgan
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I'd like to hear more on your commodity comment, if you wouldn't mind. How have operating systems and hardware become a commodity? Received on Sun Dec 21 2003 - 18:41:56 CST