RE: Opinions request - Oracle on WIN2K vs Unix

Cheaper Intel hardware? How's about a Solaris box (FREE OS on SPARC CPUs!) that starts at under $3000 US?

http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v210/

Just trying to keep your options "open"... ;)

Rich

Rich Jesse                        System/Database Administrator
rich.jesse_at_qtiworld.com           Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

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Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 11:02 AM
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Darrell,

The reason we are considering the move is because the CIO said to consider it. Last year it was consider moving to SQL Server. Thankfully, I dodged that bullet - porting costs were too high.

>From his level (and he "loves" microsoft) is that the hardware is a lot more

expensive for the non-Intel Unix servers. Which is somewhat true. Though our

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