On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 09:41, pseep@mail.gr wrote:

I suppose that the CPU will be Intel.

Will Oracle work better on a 3GH intel 4 or a SPARC machine V250?

Because the second machine costs much more than the first as you know :)

Better? I don't know about "better," but it would definitely be _faster_ on the Intel box. And cheaper too. Although, admittedly, I haven't been intimate with Sun's line for a few years now, but they haven't done anything remarkable with either performance or pricing since that time. In my opinion, they're getting left in the dust on the price versus performance curve. When you need the stability and flexibility of running, say, a Starfire, then I think they're in the game. But I'd probably even evaluate a home-grown cluster before buying an E15K now. I'm saying all of this as someone who used to admin my company's Sun-based Unix farm in the datacenter (including an E10K), and was very happy with every aspect, except price and performance. It's certainly robust and mature. If you're going to be running "mission-critical" stuff on it, then I'd still have to give the edge to Sun, based on their incredible support, but I'm only saying this because their support (and IBM's AIX support - from another life) are just incredible in general. I have no experience with SuSE's support. The folks who admin the datacenter now are in the process of evaluating a move to SLES from Sun in some of the periphery projects, but I will say this: SLES won out in their evaluation over RHES... Regards, dk