Hi I use Itanium only with HP-UX on very big an critical clients. Hardware: rx8640, rx6600. Very reliable and good performance (only dual core Itanium). You can use also Linux and Windows but I think HP-UX will be better. x86-64 system´s have very good performance. I use it in small to medium database servers. Linux (I prefer) or Windows (If client wants it). I always use Windows 32bit by now, but this SO have a 2GB/per process limitation so we are thinking to change to Windows 64bit. (I need some references on working systems). I use the SAP bechmark to compare server performance using Oracle. http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/sd2tier.epx You need to Download in tab-delimited text format, open with Excel and using autofilter, sort by SAPS. Another good bechmarks are www.tpc.org and www.spec.org greetings. _____ De: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En nombre de Jeffrey Beckstrom Enviado el: miércoles, 28 de noviembre de 2007 16:40 Para: oracle-l-freelists; oracle-db-l; oracle tech-old list; oracle rdbms group Asunto: x86-64 or itanium We are trying to decide between x86-64 bit and Itanium servers. For those of you running 64-bit, which hardware and OS are you using. Jeffrey Beckstrom Database Administrator Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority 1240 W. 6th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113