Re: Oracle vs DB2 on heavy OLTP loads

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 18:30:05 -0700
Message-ID: <1116293165.59686@yasure>

dbguy456_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> Clarification - we're running DB2/Win2003-32, and would like to hear
> about experiences with Oracle on any platform/OS (with preference going
> towards Itanium-based ones).

My preference would be to drop Windows as a platform for any serious database work and to drop Itanium if going 64bit: It is overpriced garbage.

If Linux I'd look at Opteron and if going P5 I'd look at Apple G5s.

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