Re: database market share 2003

datab0y_at_yahoo.com wrote:

  > I heard that a lot of oracle growth in linux was due to migrations by
> customers of solaris to linux.

Don't know that anyone can comment on that other than Mark and he may not be able to comment for obvious reasons. But I can tell you that I am currently looking at migrating three production systems from Solaris to Linux. Though the hardware may remain Sun.

> Think the DB2 flat rate might be due to more IBM customers staying
> with AIX than Sun customers staying with Solaris? Not to say that AIX
> is better than Sun, but it certainly has a more solvent & solid
> company behind it.

Well I'll say it ... AIX 5L is probably the best *NIX O/S on the market.

> I typically recommend solaris for oracle, but these days it seems like
> everyone wants to go with linux instead of solaris. DB2 on the other
> hand works best with aix - but those ibm p-series boxes are pretty
> cool, not much more than intel, and can run either aix or linux.

With Oracle my first choice, if budget wasn't a concern would be IBM hardware with AIX 5L. But bring in budget considerations and I immediately start looking at Dell or Compaq/HP 1U boxes with RedHat Linux.

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