There are definitely folks out there running Oracle on the z under Linux .. can't name them because of confidentiality agreements - but they are using it. The amount of processing and memory needed is what will vary and will determine if it's cost-effective or not.
Not sure that helps.. but FWIW -- Scott Rohling On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > > > Are you seeing a fair number of shops running Oracle on Linux on Z and > if so have the results been favorable? The question comes about > because.... > > > > My management is hearing that when people move servers over to the Z > under Linux they are mostly moving servers that have very little usage > already and that databases like Oracle are staying put on the other > platforms such as Solaris in my case, giving them the impression that > the z/Linux cannot handle this. I know there are some situations where > this may be true but I do not believe on a whole this is necessarily > true. What do you think! > > > > Thanks, > > > > Terry > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
