Re: AIX versus SUN and Linux, best price performance ?

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From: Allen
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 20:56

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Louis wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We have a IBM RS6000 F50 running AIX 4.3.3 with 3 CPU's and 9 mirrored
> disks and 1.5 GB internal memory. DBMS Basis 9.1 runs on it. This database
> can be compared with Oracle regarding performance. However it's not
> multi-threading.
> 
> We are thinking of upgrading hardware. The F50 cannot handle the job
> anymore. The Basis DBMS runs on AIX, Linux and SUN. Our database will be
> around 60 GB and should be spreaded on multiple disks (at least 4). In
> total we need at least 10 disks (20-40 GB). We need 2-4 GB memory.
> 
> The solution should be cheap but also reliable. So, we prefer cheap memory
> and cheap (instead of expensive IBM SSA disks) SCSI or even IDE disks.
> 
> Please advise.
> 
> Regards,

I'd go with a dual Opteron, depending on Basis's willingness to compile
their software for it.

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