If you price the Dell servers, I think you will find there is little price advantage over a comparable (sort of) Sun 8-CPU box -- for example, Sun Fire V880. If the Sun 450 of which you speak is a few years old, then changing to almost any platform will get you CPU's that are a heck of a lot faster. But, if I/O is the big deal, they need to consider the I/O capacity of the box, not just the CPU power. That is, you might have two boxes that support 8 CPUs, but one has 4 IDE interfaces, which the other has 8 SCSI interfaces.
Try to encourage them not to get hung up on the Linux buzzword. Really, it's just a popular buzzword these days to most people who don't understand what the OS truly is. There are those who seem to think that if it uses Linux, it will be a lot cheaper than if they use some other kind of unix. Not so. Not a bit. They also need to look at the kind of support -- both vendor and third party -- each platform has. -----Original Message----- They are contemplating moving it to Linux and a very high end Dell system, perhaps 4-8 CPU, etc. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Stephen Lee INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
