But Adel, the point here is not that Andreesseon is comparing Solaris on Sparc, a different platform entirely, but Solaris on Opteron, the same platform the commercial Linux he evaluated, so the performance arguments disappear.
You could run that same app stack on Intel hardware as well, if you wanted, though you wouldn't get the heat and power savings of Opteron. Adel Ben Zarrouk wrote: > Hi, > > Why you should prefer Linux for your large enterprise deployments? > > When Wall Street most reputed trading companies made massive migrations > from > Unix and MS Windows to Linux, they were not bargaining on performance. > Their > migrations saved them alot because they could run the same workloads on > less > expensive hardware which costs alot less to manage (ref. > http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1014287.html > <http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1014287.html>) > > In the case of Dresdner Bank, the migration was outsourced to Red Hat; the > Solaris servers costing USD 1.5 million performed the heavy duty market > simulations in 17 hours, the new Linux system performed the same in 11 > minutes > at a fraction of the cost! See attachment. > > Linux requires less hardware to perform the same job than MS Windows or > Unix. > Technically, Linux can ran on a i386sx with 16 MHz and 4 MB of RAM, but > application workloads usually require more than that. Besides, using Linux > gives the organisation alot of freedom and flexibility with respect to the > hardware platform: with Linux you can pick any x86, Itanium, Opteron, > PowerPC > or even IBM zSeries to ran Oracle, whereas with other operating systems you > have a much narrower choice, with hp-ux, for instance, you have "the choice" > for only Itanium and PA-Risc machines. With IBM Aix the organisation is > stuck > with the Power platfrom. Choosing Linux would, for instance, allow the > organisation to keep any IBM RS6000 or AS 400. It's no wonder that the new > Altix from SGI (the fastest machine in the World) is running Linux rather > than Unix! Other research found Linux running faster than Solaris on Sun's > own hardware (http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/LinuxSolaris.shtml). IBM's mainframe > sales rose significantly because Linux was ported to the IBM zSeries, Linux > runs on the huge machines better than the traditional IBM z/OS > (http://search390.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid10_gci960269,00.html). > > In terms of performance, Linux runs Oracle faster than Unix and MS > Windows on > the same hardware. The best proof would be the latest TPC-C results of hp > Integrity hardware running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle Database 10g > ( http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2004_oct/oracle tpc-h linux > cluster hp > infinicon final site.html). Oracle are running parts of their internal > infrastructure on Linux and it's only reflecting a general market trade to > deploy Oracle on Linux > (http://www.oracle.com/database/feature_db_dbleadership.html). > > As mentioned earlier most Linux migrations are motivated by the Linux > performance, security and cost advantage. Besides the hardware lock-in > problem, the Unix support costs are sometimes prohibitive. Red Hat is > providing all the power of Linux with well reputed professional services, > they were rated #1 vendor for value by their customers > (http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/Value_Rankings_final.pdf). > > And find attached one of the biggest migration from Unix to Linux. > > Regards > > --Adel > > On 2/28/06, *Manu Abraham* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > Christopher Saul wrote: > > > Comparison of sparc/x86 linux.. > > > > Interesting, but not particularly relevant, as the article is > comparing > > Sparc and x86 on an application benchmark. > > > > The interesting thing about the Ning story is comparing operating > > systems, performance and the business issues around them, on the same > > platform. > > > > > > Does Solaris support DVB hardware ? > > > Manu > > > > > Yahoo! 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