Re: Oracle 10G on IBM, is this a good idea ?

On 2006-01-11, Matthias Hoys <anti_at_spam.com> wrote:
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><andkovacs_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1137001501.288993.184010_at_g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> Until now we were running on HP linux DL580 without issue.
>> There are some pressure to switch to IBM.
>>
>> Is this a good idea to install 10G on an IBM ?
>>
>
> Hi,
> I'm working for +3 years now with Oracle 8i, 9i and 10g (10.1.0.4) on IBM
> AIX (4.3.3 and 5.2), and my experience is that this is a VERY stable
> operating system. Of course you have to configure/tune things like async
> i/o, VMM, large pages, ... but there is plenty of documentation available.
> One (big) disadvantage of AIX vs Linux, Solaris or Windows : you can only
> install it on (expensive) IBM hardware. So a test-server in VMWare on a

        Oh there's plenty of places to look for cheap RS6000 hardware. It won't be the latest and greatest but that isn't really the idea is it? Just take a look on ebay. There's more than likely something capable of running 5.3 for cheap for sale there right now.

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