Re: Which platform is better?

Why not buy the bigger box and run another flavor of UNIX on it?

"Paul R. Johnson" <pjohnson_at_take.this.out.spasydell.net> wrote in message news:8nulgtkn24li454dfib8jhaqvhn2lkkn9g_at_4ax.com...
> I currently am running Oracle 7.3.4 on AIX 4.3.1.0. We have this on a
> 3 processor 333mhz RS/6000 with 1gb ram. We a having occasional
> problems with performance, but nothing too bad. We are running a
> Point of Sale and scheduling application from Windows Terminal Server.
> There are usually 80-100 concurrent users on the system with only
> about half of them banging on it.
>
> Our lease is up on the RS/6000 and we are considering 2 options:
>
> 1. Have an AIX expert audit the system for performance and add
> memory, disks, etc as necessary. Then have an Oracle DBA do the same.
> I am currently using a contract DBA. I think that we can get more out
> of this machine.
>
> 2. Buy an new NT/2000 server. This is where I would know what I was
> talking about and able to make recommendations. I am looking at a
> dual Xeon 700mhz/1mb cache, 2+gb ram, 8 9gb hard drives configured for
> RAID 10. This should be a speedy box.
>
> We are probably going to migrate to 8.x in the near future. Which is
> better for the oracle version that we have now and the future?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Paul
>
>
> Paul R. Johnson
> IT Manager
> Spa Sydell
> pjcace at yahoo dot com
>
Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 23:07:28 CEST