Re: Best chip for Oracle AMD, INTEL, SPARC

From: joel garry <joel-garry_at_home.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:26:10 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jul 11, 7:26 pm, "Bob Jones" <em..._at_me.not> wrote:
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> > I know you are going to say that it all depends on the O/S, but if you
> > can forget that for the minute, does it matter what the CPU is when
> > your are compare the Intel Xeon Quads, AMD Quads and Sun SPARC chips.
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> > Does the cache make a big difference, since you think then SPARC /
> > INTEL would be best and you would never consider AMD.
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> >  SPARC T2        =   4 MB  L2
> >  UltraSPARC IV  =   2MB L2
> >  INTEL Xeon       =   2MB L2
> >  AMD Opteron     =   512K L2
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> > Cheers
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> > Andrew
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> Are they all the same price? Smaller cache can save you bigger cash.

If you start talking about price, you need to watch Oracle licensing very carefully. It is changing unpredictably. See http://www.pythian.com/blogs/1009/recent-changes-to-oracle-se-licensing-rules-higher-price for one example.

jg

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