[SunHELP] Oracle server?

[Fletcher, Joe]

AFAIK the only 4-way box around currently faster than an ES40 is (or =
will
be) the ES45 due out in November. From my experience with ES40s and HP
L2000s I'd still buy the ES even tho' the future is uncertain. They are =
very
fast, reliable and easy to manage. Your renewal cycle is probably of =
the
order
of a couple of years so the current models will probably carry you =
through
the HPAQ restructuring.

Your option with SUN is one of the new SUNfire boxes but at best they =
are
only on a par with the current EV6-667 systems.

It will be a shame if Tru64 goes away since it's an exceptionally good
product and the Alpha hardware is superb.

It will be interesting to see what the EV8 (sorry, IA64 MKII) products =
look
like in a year or so's time.



-----Original Message-----
From: Bj=F6rn Ramqvist [mailto:brt at osk.sema.se]
Sent: 5 September 2001 06:58
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SunHELP] Oracle server?


Since Compaq and it's Tru64 seems to be out of the battle, some other
company has to win our battle for better Oracle performance.
Anyone in here running any small- to middlesized Oracle databases?
(40-50 GB range)
We're looking at 4 CPU boxes, two or maybe three of'em, clustered.
Maximum downtime for a failed node must be withing one or perhaps half =
a
minute range.

IBM and Sun seems to be the only actors left in this battle. Compaq's
gone, and there's no snowball chance in hell that I can convince my
customer to choose HP again. SGI? heh... Oracle on SGI? =3D)
Any opinions?

I'm still trying to find the Oracle benchmarks on oracle.com, but it
seems to be a big webserver.

/Bjorn
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