Re: Oracle on AIX for Power

Patrice,

Just based on my own personal observations visiting several different IT shops 
every year, I'd guess that AIX represents at least 15-20% of Oracle RDBMS 
market share. My last two customers (i.e. my two main customers for this 
current year) are AIX on Power64, for example. Can't quote that percentage with 
any authority, but suffice to say that AIX is a big port for Oracle, and always 
has been.

And the reverse is true: IBM has long recognized that the Oracle RDBMS pushes a 
lot of their iron, and has been a good partner to Oracle, even though they also 
compete with DB2/UDB. Let's just say that the DB2 folks often resent the IBM 
hardware sales folks, because the hardware folks are often bigger fans of 
Oracle than DB2, because Oracle sells more servers.

What's even more strange is that DB2 runs on Solaris, so IBM and Oracle have a 
curious intertwined relationship that kind of makes one blush, if you think 
about it biologically... :-)

Hope this helps...

-Tim

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From: Patrice sur GMail [mailto:patrice.boivin@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 10:52 AM
To: 'ORACLE-L'
Subject: Oracle on AIX for Power

I am wondering how often Oracle is run on that platform.

Wouldn't Oracle mostly be written first for linux / solaris / win32, then 
ported to the other platforms?

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