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From: Andrew Babb <andrewb@mail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
Subject: Re: Platform Options
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 14:06:43 +0800
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To: ray_mrayan@my-dejanews.com

Hi Ray,

This is going to raise a number of 'personnel' replies, and here is mine.

Out of the list that you supplied, I have not worked on the RISC System/6000
recently but as far as Solaris or NT, I would move for Solaris (SPARC) all the
time. I'm sorry, but personally I am not ready to recommend NT for Mission
Critical environments.

If you want to widen the view, I would also include Digital UNIX and HP as your
other two options, but you may have ruled them out already for what ever reason.
I have used these two platforms recently and hence my suggestion.

Have fun,
Andrew

ray_mrayan@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> I am in the process of recommending a solution for an application that
> could involve a huge number of transactions (upwards of 15 million on certain
> days) with support for a small number of concurrent users.
>
> The database will be 100-200 GB within 30 days, possibly peaking at 500 GB in
> 18 months.  There will be heavy disk i/o and need for high availabilty (>
> 98%).
>
> System cost will be an important issue but will not be the deciding factor. I
> beleive the application will generate enough revenue to pay for itself
> because we could add more functionality to bring in additional revenue,if the
> system is really expensive. Performance is a very important factor.
>
> Due to several other app specs,(I have done some basic tpc analysis, also) I
> have chosen Oracle as the RDBMS. Now some of the hardware platform choices
> appear to be:
>
> Unix on RISC System/6000
> Solaris on Enterprise 6500 Server
> NT on ProLiant 6500
> NT on ProLiant 5000
>
> I was wondering if anyone could share some of their experiences using Oracle
> with these systems.
>
> Thanks !
>
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