Re: Certified Hardware?

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 09:40:18 -0800
Message-ID: <1136396416.933639@jetspin.drizzle.com>

bbulsara23_at_hotmail.com wrote:

>>DA Morgan wrote:
>>

>
>
> It is not uncommon for software vendors to optimize for a specific
> platform architecture, ie specific versions of an application or O/S
> optimised for Intel as 64-bit Itanium, Xeon, .... (it was certainly the
> case a few years ago that Weblogic was optimized for 32-bit Intel Xeon
> processors).
>
> It is far far less common for the chip manufacturers to optimize their
> instruction set for a specific O/S.
>
>

>>But I'd stay away from Intel chips until they stop optimizing for
>>Windows.

>
>
> Therefore I question what you have written above. Could you provide a
> reference to back up the following statement please? Windows what, 3.1,
> NT, 200, XP, Me, Home, 32bit, 64bit ? And I am also unsure how your
> statement relates to Stephs original question on a certified O/S for
> Oracle. Could you elaborate?
>
> Barry

I first became aware of it from an internal Oracle doc and I am not liberty to release it. But it is a secret all over the industry that Intel has burned pathways into their silicon that favour Windows over Linux/Solaris ... which is why AMD chips are to be prefered.

Benchmark the delta yourself.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
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Received on Wed Jan 04 2006 - 11:40:18 CST