OS recommendations / experience

Hi all
As refugees of the Itanium-Oracle smackdown, we are now evaluating new
platforms and I was wondering if anyone had any opinions on the following
for production use:
- RedHat 4 or 5
- Solaris 10 x86

We'd want to run instances from 9.2.0.6 thru to 11.2 on it, and 12g when it
comes out , so ideally RH4 or Sol10 would let us run a single certified OS
without resorting to virtualisation.

For that matter, does anyone consider Oracle VM (x86, not Solaris)
production ready ?

We are a VMWare shop on the windows side, but the lack of hard partitioning
for Oracle licensing poses some problems there.

Thanks in advance for any comments-
Jeff.


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