My reply might be a bit aside from the question. But...
If you are looking at 10gR2 for critical production systems than you
are amongst pioneers anyway. One can argue that they are running 10g
in production for a year or more but definitions of criticality vary.
I also saw the speculations flowing that it was a political decision
to step away from Solaris x86 starting with Oracle 9i and than Sun
realized that this was a lousy decision.
All IMHO.
On 11/16/06, Jim Newman <jim.newman_at_iovation.com> wrote:
> We are looking into switching from Sparc Solaris to Solaris x86 due to the allure of "cheaper faster" hardware. I'm a little concerned about running our mission critical databases on Solaris x86. Oracle's offering for this platform went away entirely for 9i, and I heard the issue was that there were just too many different chips to support. It's back, but I wonder if it's really a safe bet. We'll be running 10g R2 with most of the goodies, Streams, Data Guard, partitioning, and possibly RAC. Anyone running Oracle Solaris x86 that can relieve (or confirm) my fears?
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Best regards,
Alex Gorbachev
The Pythian Group
Sr. Oracle DBA
http://www.pythian.com/blogs/author/alex/
http://blog.oracloid.com
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Received on Sun Nov 19 2006 - 22:00:42 CST
