Re: Again, Solaris or Linux for RAC

From: Bob Jones <email_at_me.not>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:52:52 GMT
Message-ID: <8OLUi.12629$4V6.500@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net>

"Mladen Gogala" <mgogala_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:fftj52$gaf$1_at_aioe.org...
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:03:11 -0700, emdproduction wrote:
>
>> Our application will potentially have a few thousand concurrent user.
>
> OLTP or DSS?
>
>> What will you pick, solaris or linux for your RAC?
>
> For OLTP, I would discard RAC choice and buy IBM. IBM is the best when
> it comes to handling high I/O loads characteristic for OLTP and mixed
> databases.

The problem is that our company has money for a RAC but can't afford to buy IBM. Received on Sat Oct 27 2007 - 13:52:52 CDT