Re: Oracle on SUN --> Oracle on DEC Aplha + Digital Unix ?

I pretty sure that SUN still has that Ultra5 or 10 upgrade option for pretty cheap with a trade-in. It's like, you just swap chassis's, give'em (SUN) 3 or 4 grand, and bam! -> you got yourself a nice 300MHz machine. It's not 500MHz, but then this is only my quick take - don't know if it's a U.S. thing only either.

out!

Alan MCCulloch wrote:

> Hi
>
> We are currently running Oracle 7.2 on an ageing SUN Sparc2.
>
> Because of a good hardware price, there is a proposal to
> upgrade to a DEC Alpha, Digital Unix, rather than the
> original SUN upgrade we intended.
>
> Does anybody have any experience or views on this as a good
> or bad idea ?
>
> There is some concern that we may be moving to a less popular
> UNIX, possibly less supported and with a doubtful future.
> There are also some learning curve issues, and the need
> to convert our SQL*Forms "legacy" apps to Developer 2k/Forms 4.5,
> whereas under a SUN upgrade we can run them as they are
> (connectintg via SQL*Net).
>
> (We are not planning to use Developer 2K /Forms 4.5
> as our future client, so this would be a one off learning
> curve. We are into Delphi and Java/HTML)
>
> Thanks for any advice / experience
>
> Alan McCulloch
Received on Thu Mar 19 1998 - 00:00:00 CET