Niall Litchfield wrote:
> On Oct 23, 2:08 pm, emdproduct..._at_hotmail.com wrote:
>> Our organization is debating whether we should to Sun-intel (not
>> solaris) or Dell-intel in terms of hardware for database. Sun-intel
>> seems to be much cheaper.
>>
>> Does anybody have any experience/comments to share?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> I'd disagree with both Dan and Frank. It seems to me that Linux on
> Dell or HP is a hell of a lot larger than non solaris sun intel boxes.
> If that's right you'll likely get better support both in house and
> from the vendors (oracle/redhat as well as the hardware vendor) for a
> mainstream intel vendor than one whose x86 is really rather an
> afterthought.
Unless I misread the OP ... we are talking about the operating system
and the only question is which hardware vendor ... which is why I
suggested looking at HP too. I'm with Howard ... I'm not a fan of Dell
in the data center.
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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Fri Oct 26 2007 - 15:59:16 CDT
