Mark Bole wrote:

> G Dahler wrote:
>
>> "Andrew Hardy" <junkmail@[127.0.0.1]> a écrit dans le message de
>> news:c7nm36$5qe$1@sun-cc204.lut.ac.uk...
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We're using an E450: 'Sun Enterprise 450 (4 X UltraSPARC-II 296MHz)'
>>> with 1Gb of RAM as a development platform.
>>>
>>
>>
>> We recently replaced a similar UE 450 2Gb RAM machine by a Sun 280R
>> (1.2 Ghz
>> single CPU, 5Gb RAM) and found the machine to perform as good (if not
>> better) than the 450. Technology (eg. disks) as improved a lot since the
>> 450, that gives a good boost in performance.
>>
>> I would not run anything else than solaris or Linux on the Intel
>> Platform,
>> otherwise, your CPU will be busy managing the GUI and useless stuff
>> instead
>> of your database. But other people may actually like windows for
>> whatever
>> reason (maybe they have MSFT stock :-)
>>
>>
>
> If you go to a site like Dell or Red Hat, you should be able to find
> some white papers with Oracle performance test comparisons to Sun (and
> probably other competing vendors).
>
> We have done several tests of both batch and transactional processing
> and found that a shiny new Intel/Linux box vastly out-performs the
> five-year-old Sun/Solaris hardware we use. Vendor support is a
> different and less positive story, however...
>
> --Mark Bole
>
>

I bet a shiny new Sun would outperform a five year old Sun, too.


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