--- Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 5/31/06, MVE <mvetmp-ora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >What edge does Linux on a PC has over Solaris on a Sun Box? > > Adequate performance at a hugely reduced cost. Windows has this as well. As > a rule of thumb, yes I know!, you can now run at least a hundred concurrent > sessions of an erp app on hardware and software costing less than GBP4000 > (oracle license excluded). Is it cast iron guaranteed reliable and > available, well no. Do you need it to be - probably not. > -- > Niall Litchfield If you work with shops that have less than 10K budget for hardware and don't have 99% uptime requirement there's still a better solution: Get THREE 2 WAY E450R and one D1000 (12 x 18GB/10K discs) total cost ~ $5000K USD (from a authorized Sun dealer with 2 year warrantee) Split it as follows: E450R -- WEB-FORMS tier E450R -- CM tier E450R/D1000 (12 disc) -- DB tier You'll easily scale up to 500 concurrent users and when it's time to grow you are already on Solaris -- get new Sun BOXES, move the datafiles and the APPL_TOP - you are done in one weekend. - Vitaliy -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l