Re: Oracle SGA size on i386 platforms

"Joel Garry" <joel-garry_at_home.com> writes:

>>When you are dealing in a specialised domain with very few application
>
>>vendors, you have little choice other than to use the platforms they
>>support. Also note that originally they did support our preferred
>>platform and if it wasn't for HP purchasing the Alpha/Tru64 IP and
>>deciding to wind it up in 2010, everything would be fine. We are
>>putting considerable pressure on the app. vendor and may be able to
>>get them to support us running on Linux, but no guarantees.
>
> Eh? I'm sure I received a sunset notice from Compaq 5-7 years ago.

Thats possible - I wasn't working with Tru64 and Alphas until 4 years ago. I know that HP announced only a year or so ago that they would stop supporting Tru64 in 2010.

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>>Its also not as simple as just changing to another application. The
>>project to get this one up and running took nearly 4 years (including
>>analysis and selection, BPI, configuration etc) and cost over
>>$8Million. HPs announcement regarding Tru64 occured late enough in the
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>>project we were committed and could not change.
>
> If you are into the millions with your vendor, you might mention to
> them that you want an upgrade path supported by HP.
>
> I'm having trouble believing even a very complicated app could take
> that long to port from tru64 to hp-ux. What does HP say about it?
> http://h30097.www3.hp.com/transition/app_tools.html
>

We are putting pressure on our vendor to support the platform we want. We aren't just going for HP-UX simply because they purchased the IP for Tru64 and then retired it. Even though the application is expensive, they don't have any other vendors on HP-UX (they do have two major clients still on Tru64). They have agreed to port to our preferred platform, just not in the time frame we require - if it wasn't for the sudden growth we have had (and some performance issues with some critical new functionality the vendor is currently working on), everything would be OK. Our real problem is that we need increased performance now and we don't want to invest money in Tru64 when we will be moving away from it within the next two years and none of the other supported platforms (Solaris and Windows) is suitable for us. By the end of the 3rd quarter next year, they will support 32 and 64 bit linux, 64 bit Windows, AIX and Solaris - just got to find a solution until then.

Tim>

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