Well, he did say "have to field user complaints for weeks after each move, despite testing." That immediately implies there hasn't been sufficient testing to me. :) Pete "Controlling developers is like herding cats." Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook "Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than that!" Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mogens Nørgaard Sent: Saturday, 20 March 2004 6:01 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Hardware / OS recommendation Of what? Pete Sharman wrote: > More testing? :) > > > Pete > > "Controlling developers is like herding cats." > Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook > > "Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than that!" > Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of John Flack > Sent: Saturday, 20 March 2004 12:54 AM > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Hardware / OS recommendation > > We are currently running 8.1.7 databases on a 4 year old Dell Pentium > machine, under SCO UnixWare. This is the last supported version of > Oracle under UnixWare, and since the hardware is getting old in internet > years, we're thinking of getting new hardware running a supported OS for > Oracle 9i R2 or 10g. I'm the official DBA, but my system administrator > has been wearing an Asst. DBA hat doing much of the day to day work. > > The SA wants to get a low-end Sun SPARC machine running Solaris, since > the price of these has come down to around the same price as the sort of > high end Intel or AMD machine that we would normally use as a server. I > would normally vote for the Intel/AMD solution running Red Hat or SUSE > Linux, since we already run several of those. And maybe there are some > low-end machines from HP or IBM (or someone else) that we should > consider. > > One thing I'd definitely like is an OS that Oracle will support for a > long time. We started on old SCO Unix, moved to SCO Openserver when > Oracle stopped supporting it, moved to UnixWare when Oracle stopped > supporting Openserver, and now have to move again. Oracle is Oracle, > and we've never had much of a problem with the database stuff - an > export and an import, and we've been good to go. But the shell scripts, > COBOL and C programs have required tweaking every time we moved. > Nothing major, but just enough to have to field user complaints for > weeks after each move, despite testing. > > Suggestions, anyone? > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > -- > Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > -- > Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------