Hi, This link below is not from an Oracle benchmark, but still a database one... unless you have many parallel threads of work running (nightly batch jobs for example), the CPU peformance can suck... http://tweakers.net/reviews/649/8/database-test-sun-ultrasparc-t1-vs-amd-opt eron-pagina-8.html -- Regards, Tanel Poder http://blog.tanelpoder.com > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lou Avrami > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 04:48 > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Any issues with Sun Coothreads Servers? > > Hi all, > > The organization where I am working needs to buy some Sun > Sparc servers for a new project. Some of the server models > are consideration are the T2000, the T5120 and the T5220. > They have requested that I ask if anyone has had any negative > experiences with Sun's multi-core, multithreaded CoolThreads > servers running Oracle. > > Any feedback, good or bad, would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Lou Avrami > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l