Re: SUN - Solaris vs Linux?

From: Brian Krahmer <brian_at_krahmer.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 12:17:49 -0700
Message-ID: <GnRX5.1526$OG4.204783@news.uswest.net>

If you're going to buy brand new, shiny 64-bit Sun boxes, why would you install an OS that does not take advantage of the hardware? Back when solaris 2.6 and 7 were coming out, they blew away current database performance records. It's still arguably the best platform for DBMS. If you're betting the farm on your software, do it right and run Solaris. Get a support contract in case you have any problems.

brian

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Brian Krahmer - brian@krahmer.com - http://www.krahmer.com
Sr. Engineer - Symantec Corporation - http://www.symantec.com



> My company's main product/application is nearing the production stage.

> We're specing SUN for hardware for the Oracle Servers and there's some

> controversy as to whether we should use Solaris or Linux (probably

> RedHat) as O/S.

>

> Anybody have any comments as to the wisdom of running Linux on a SUN for

> an Oracle server--in other words, some pros/cons of Solaris vs Linux on

> SUN for Oracle?

Received on Thu Dec 07 2000 - 13:17:49 CST