From: Todd Gillespie Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Solaris vs. Linux sun vs intel ??? Date: 4 Apr 2001 07:22:23 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas Lines: 13 Message-ID: <9aei3f$28l$2@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> References: <9adrqd$q0l$1@ewok.cse.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: linux127.ma.utexas.edu X-Trace: geraldo.cc.utexas.edu 986368943 2325 146.6.139.98 (4 Apr 2001 07:22:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@cc.utexas.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Apr 2001 07:22:23 GMT User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-19990805 ("Preacher Man") (UNIX) (Linux/2.2.17 (i686)) John D Groenveld wrote: : If you already have Solaris expertise, then you might consider : running Solaris x86. Except that Oracle doesn't offer a Solaris x86 version, or if they do they're not really throwing it down to us customers. And if you're going to pay for Solaris, why wouldn't you run it on the system with the higher IO? (sparcs, for those who just joined us.) You may have had some good experiences with Solaris x86, but after mine I can't honestly say that it's a good choice. It combines all the troublesomeness of Solaris with the low-end designs of PC hardware, and is less well supported than either.