The quiet on this topic is facinating? The dell reps are all chearing. I wish I could offer something, I do have plans to look at qlogic support for sol x86 for one of their HBA cards for san attached storage, but I've go linux testing to complete before I get there: http://www.qlogic.com/support/product_resources.asp?id=126 On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 02:20:11PM -0700, David Turner wrote: > In the shop I work Standard Edition is the rule for > most of our database. It's worked well for the most > part but there are times where we've had to go to > Enterprise, which I didn't complain about. > > For the systems that can still run on Standard Edition > I've been looking for a way to get them more > horsepower. Standard Edition is limited to 4 > processors, so the only alternative is to get more > mhz. However, I've been told there are limited drivers > under Solaris X86 for raid controllers. > > Is there anyone out there running serious systems > under Solaris X86? Moving to Linux for us is a couple > years off. I could have Oracle 10G Standard Edition > running on cheaper faster x86 boxes tomorrow if I can > resolve this disk issue. > > Thx, Dave > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l ============================================================ Ray Stell stellr@xxxxxx (540) 231-4109 Tempus fugit 28^D -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l