From: Matt Lawrence (matt@TECHNORONIN.COM)
Date: Fri Mar 14 2003 - 14:58:09 EST
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Shekhar Dhotre wrote:
> Is anyone out there running Linux/Oracle in production or testing to move
> in that direction ? What is your experience - good /bad ??
> Dell Dude (Wintel marketing guy ) was telling us that there are companies
> running linux and Oracle on Intel platform in production and they
> replaced RS/6000`s and sun hardware with Intel hardware - Hard to believe
> .
> Our Company is thinking to move some of the RS/6000 servers(SP nodes -
> WInterhawks) on Intel based red hat enterprise linux servers to save $$
> .
"Big" Intel boxes are still toylike compared to medium size RS-6000s. If
Intel based Linux boxes are powerful enoungh to do the job, then it's a
good idea.
-- Matt
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