RE: Possibly moving to Sun Equipment

We have a few production E420Rs, 4-450 mhz processors, 1 to 1.5 G memory. I've been quoted benchmarks (although I haven't researched them) that an equivalent Intel processor runs faster. Based on that I might be inclined to recommend faster processors if we were buying new. The CPU does seem to be the weakest area (but then they're 450's, what do we expect?). However, we have our front end app on one box, Oracle Applications on another. We don't have much volume on a regular basis but the times we have (like the time 75,000+ emails were generated through the concurrent manager within 10 hour time frame) the machines handled them without breaking a sweat. We've had one minor hardware issue with one E420R in a year and a half (comparatively we've had more problems with our E4500s).

HTH Linda

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Hello All,
It has been a while since I have been here, but I am back and properly s ubscribed to the list again. I am looking to draw from your experiences here with hardware. Our current database resides on a Data General Aviion
system with a Clarion drive cabinet. While we are very pleased with the system, and it's performance Data General is going the way of the Dinosaur,
so we need to look at other options. The ones most currently floated have
been the Sparc 880 or the 420R either configured with dual gigahertz processors. The IT manager has a desk piled high with marketing gobbledeegook, and has asked me if I know anything about either system. All
I have been able to do is assure him that Solaris is essentially UNIX, and
tell him I would check with some knowledgeable folks here about the hardware. Our DG box sports a Gig of RAM, and 4 300 mhz Intel processors.
The best thing by far about our system is the Clarion drive cabinet that handles all our drives. The good news is I hear our cabinet is compatible
with Sun hardware, so that might come right along with us. I have done a
bit of internet searching, and seen these Sun boxes priced under 20K. My
question is this. Are these serious platforms for a business currently handling 10K OLTP transactions a day, and looking to double or triple that
volume within two years?

Steve McClure

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