Very true. I think it worth noting however that the effort to make Oracle run on platform X may be at a much higher level that what is required to get that level of performance on platform Y. Jared On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:13:05 -0600, Cary Millsap <cary.millsap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When I was at Oracle, many, many customers would ask me "privately" which > platform really is the best for running Oracle. The honest answer was that > I've seen Oracle run really well on just about every platform there is, and > I've seen Oracle run really poorly on just about every platform there is. > The number one ingredient in the performance of Oracle is whether there's a > PERSON in the system who has the will and the skill to make it run > efficiently. If you have that, you can run Oracle on anything. > > Cary Millsap > Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. > http://www.hotsos.com > * Nullius in verba * > -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l