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RE: Oracle on Sun vs Tru64

From: John Kanagaraj <john.kanagaraj_at_hds.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:24:35 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D33E1.20031015082435@fatcity.com>


Jake,

I have heard horror stories from both Sun *and* Tru64 customers (we were Sequent, and moved to Sun), but your CIO is probably right in moving out since support (people, skills, patch and product/application availability) for Tru64 is slowly vanishing. As well maintenance costs are higher for 'exotic' brands, so the move might make sen$e. For sure, the Sun platform base is larger...

The stickler is the time that will be taken for migration, and that depends on 'how much is the business willing to wait' while the database is down, as this *has* to be done via an export/import. Questions you might want to ask (and follow up for alternate solutions) are:

These are some of the questions that you might want to start asking of your CIO!!! John Kanagaraj
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Our CIO is pushing a platform change from Tru64 to Sun. We are currently running a VLDB (~1.5 TB) on Tru64. Does anyone have feedback on the following:

1) Experiences with either/both, preferred platform?
2) Experiences with platform changes? (Time required for migration?)
3) Any other thoughts?

Thanks for your feedback. I am just starting to research the issue so I am interested in any input.

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