Re: Oracle9i on Intel vs UltraSPARC

"Bob Jones" <email_at_me.not> wrote in message news:<b89151660e6c31b4097245b6d2015cf2_at_news.teranews.com>...
> "Greg Angevine" <gangevine_at_cognera.com> wrote in message
> news:oFGEb.1583$Ur.63418_at_localhost...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Does anyone have any strong words about Oracle9i on Itanium2 vs. on same
> > range SUN boxes? I'm trying to make up my mind on which is better, and
> then
> > which is most cost effecting. I'm trying to mitigate the OS as a factor...
> >
> > Thanks for any help!
> >
> > Greg.
> >
> >
>
> I will no doubt going with Sun boxes. If you have priced Itanium systems on
> the web, you will find they are actually more expensive. Bear in mind still
> a lot of software hasn't been ported to Itanium.
>
> It's hard not to talk about OSs when talking about hardware. After all they
> are what make the hardware useful. Solaris is definitely a better OS to run
> Oracle servers than Windows or Linux.

Hi,

Oracle 10g will run on Solaris for x86 platform. http://www.sun.com/smi/press/sunflash/2003-09/sunflash.20030908.3.html

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