Re: Oracle Selects Sun As Reference Platform ... again

From: Matthias Hoys <idmwarpzone_NOSPAM__at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:15:20 +0100
Message-ID: <43886dfa$0$11200$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be>

"hpuxrac" <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:1132967679.265087.245840_at_g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> #Mark Townsend wrote:
> #> > Any comments Mr. Townsend?
>
> At open world 2005 several people noted that oracle is still running
> many of it's largest internal databases on sun hardware and solaris.
>
> This is second and third hand information so obviously not to be
> trusted without some verification.
>

I think that for really high-end databases Solaris or IBM AIX would still be more recommendable than Linux. But for the "average" 2xCPU database server Linux would be my first choice, because of it's stability, market penetration and coolness ;-) Received on Sat Nov 26 2005 - 08:15:20 CST