Re: Oracle9i on Intel vs UltraSPARC

Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1071861408.998763_at_yasure>...

> Oracle, internally, has dumped all of their Sun hardware in favor
> of Linux on Dell.

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I think this is not a valid argument. You do not know what's behind the deal. It can be something as "we will give you hundreds of our boxes for free, and you will give us a unlimited licence for all of your software". And then Oracle will issue press statement: "we have chosen Linux with Dell, because its more cost effective" and Dell: "We did a deep analysis and realised that Oracle TCO are much better than that of MS SQL server". It is nice, but actually do not gave any ground for real enteprise planning.
Similar and quite funny is Oracle statement about bilions saved by internal usage of Oracle Collaboration Suite and dropping Exchange servers. I betcha they can save a lot of money by using their own product for free. However, If you look on a licensing schema you will get quite different figures. :-)
Back to Linux/Solaris topic: I see Linux on the same level as Microsoft's servers. Can be a good and cost effective solution for up to mid-range deployment, but I wouldn't recommend it when you need a highly performing and scalable system. There is a lot of constraints in older kernels (multitasking, memory management) and brand new one 2.6 core is well brand new. It will take years, before you will see a real power comming from Linux core.

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Dusan Bolek