Paul , ORACLE switched from solaris to HP-UX somewhere in mid 2000 for their tier I platform. ALso I think at this time compaq and HP are the only true 64 bit architectures available. That of course swings the scale in HPs favour...:)
Cheers, RS --- Paul Vallee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Might as well get my two cents in... :-) > > 1. Solaris > Tied for 2... AIX, Tru64, HP/UX > > (leaving NUMA out of the equation for now. If you > like NUMA, then look into > the status of IBM's acquisition of Sequent, I'm out > of touch with that right > now.) > > Different hardware solutions from different vendors > have different > performance, stability and cost characteristics, and > so I'll assume that all > vendors have an appropriate solution on these > factors, this may not be the > case. > > With these assumptions, the primary factor for me is > the timeliness of the > availability of releases, patches and patchsets. Sun > Solaris 32-bit is the > winner on this factor on the grounds that it is > Oracle's internal > development platform. All other platforms are ported > from Sun Solaris > 32-bit. When that changes, my recommendation would > of course also change, as > it did when Oracle moved away from Digital/VMS. > > Anyone who has been in a situation where a bug was > causing service failure > and who heard that a patch was available for Solaris > but not your platform > knows where I'm coming from on this one. > > Note: for the exact same reason, never use 64-bit > Oracle on Solaris unless > you absolutely need the very-large-sga support. > 64-bit Oracle on Solaris is > slow to get patches and releases. > > Best, > Paul > --- > www.pythian.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 877-PYTHIAN > Smarter than adding another team member, Pythian has > new services for > supplementing DBAs: get our help with monitoring, > 24x7 on-call, daily > verifications, storage management, performance and > more. > > ----- Original Message ----- > To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 12:48 PM > > > What are you planning..? A religious war..:) > well..here is my 2 cents,IMHO > 1. HP-UX > 2. SOlaris > 3. AIX > > in the order of preference. I have worked with all > three and I found HP machines to be reliable and > HP-UX easy to work with. This is not to say solaris > is > not but I had some nightmare stroies to tell about > the > bugs and quality of support from SUN. Again this is > only my opinion and as everybody knows OS is ,to > some > extent ,a matter of personal choice also. > ( Running to put on flame proof suit..:) ) > > Cheers, > RS > --- "Bunyamin K. Karadeniz" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We are searching about which unix is best ? > > We will apply 9ias and 8.1.7 DB . plus Oracle > > Portal. > > Can you direct me to a link for comparison about > > SOLARIS , AIX , HP-UX for performance and other > > options .. > > Thank you ... > > > > > > Bunyamin K. Karadeniz > > Oracle DBA / Developer > > Civilian IT Department > > Havelsan A.S. 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