A DL380 works very well. ______________________________________________________________ Dick Goulet / Capgemini North America P&C / East Business Unit Senior Oracle DBA / Hosting Office: 508.573.1978 / Mobile: 508.742.5795 / www.capgemini.com Fax: 508.229.2019 / Email: richard.goulet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 45 Bartlett St. / Marlborough, MA 01752 Together: the Collaborative Business Experience ______________________________________________________________ ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Howard Latham Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:07 AM To: oracle-l Subject: HARDWARE CHOICE We are looking at some HP servers and because the DL580 is quad core only due to the license cost we are considering a DL585G2 or DL380G5 anyone got any opinions on the best database server for Linux / 11g? -- Howard A. Latham