The whole point is a bit moot now that Alpha is a dead platform.
Compaq sold the Alpha technology to Intel. As far as HP's continued support
for Alpha, consider that HP is in a VERY competitive business; Unix makes up
only a small part of its bottom line; and it is currently sitting on three
Unix platforms: The old HP/UX boxes; the (supposed) new Itanium platform (so
they say, but I remain skeptical); and the Alpha platform that it inherited.
Even if Carly herself walked in and swore up and down that HP will continue
to support the Alpha, I would insist that there is no way HP is going to
commit resources to supporting three Unix platforms. Right now, I think HP
is busy holding its finger to the wind and actively consulting The Magic 8
Ball and a Ouija board to determine its future Unix direction.
We use Alpha here. I came to this shop from a predominantly Sun/Aix
environment. I can say that Compaq's handling of the Alpha/Tru64 platform
make it the only version of Unix that makes NT look good. My opinion is --
and this is just an opinion -- that any performance "enhancements" that were
achieved by the Compaq bunch were done so in the same way you would do it
with your PC: Overclock the bejeezus out of everything with the
accompanying reduction of stability and component life. I am convinced that
the latest Alpha technology is three year old tweaking of five year old
Alpha technology.
(Hope I didn't scuff up the soap box too much.)
And as long as I am at it here:
ps -eo args | nawk -F_ 'NF == 3 && /ora_smon_/ {print $3}'
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hemant K Chitale [mailto:hkchital@;singnet.com.sg]
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 8:19 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: SPARC-III v Alpha
>
>
>
> Does anyone have benchmark or comparative figures for Sun
> SPARC v Compaq
> (thenewhp) Alpha
> for Oracle Databases ? I found some benchmark figures for
> Datawarehouses
> at the
> Oracle website but not for OLTP [then again, the machines
> configured for those
> benchmarks were extra-large machines !].
>
>
>
> Hemant K Chitale
> My web site page is : http://hkchital.tripod.com
>
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