I must agree with Gogala : Solaris Intel exists since more than 10 years and never break through. Beside that, what do you have more with Solaris Intel than Linux ? You will surely have much less third party software ported from Solaris Sparc to Solaris Intel than from Solaris Sparc to Linux.. B. Polarski http://www.smenu.org ----Original Message----- From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:gogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, 18 May, 2006 3:59 AM To: m.haddon@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Anyone used 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.1.0) for Solaris Operating System (x86-64) You're paying the cost of using exotic platforms. I sincerely doubt that anybody will be able to respond to your question. -- Mladen Gogala http://www.mgogala.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l