Not meant to be flame bait, but...

Here's an apples and oranges question that I am trying to figure out:

Given the following two machines (for argument's sake, assume each has the same disks and 100 MHz FSB speed (twin 7200 RPM Seagates or Maxtors, EIDE unless I can get Linux happy with the ATA interface). Assume memory is not a constraint even at 768MB total, I can keep the SGA small for now - so I guess it comes down to the processors):

twin 533-MHz Celeron                  single 900MHz Athlon (T-bird)
768MB                                 1 GB memory

Which would make a better Oracle server? Should it run Win2K or Linux? I am starting a venture with a friend at home and am going to set up a machine with 9i and 9iAS. I would rather keep them on the same machine for now (I have configured n-tier professionally several times, but I only have so many machines at home).

Opinions solicited!

TIA - Jared Hecker
theheckers.org_at_jared (or something like that - reply-to address not operational) Received on Mon Apr 14 2003 - 09:18:41 CDT