--- Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@(protected):
> On 5/31/06, MVE <mvetmp-ora@(protected):
> >What edge does Linux on a PC has over Solaris on a Sun Box?
>
> Adequate performance at a hugely reduced cost. Windows has this as well. As
> a rule of thumb, yes I know!, you can now run at least a hundred concurrent
> sessions of an erp app on hardware and software costing less than GBP4000
> (oracle license excluded). Is it cast iron guaranteed reliable and
> available, well no. Do you need it to be - probably not.
> --
> Niall Litchfield

If you work with shops that have less than 10K budget for hardware and don't
have 99% uptime requirement there's still a better solution:

Get THREE 2 WAY E450R and one D1000 (12 x 18GB/10K discs) total cost ~ $5000K
USD (from a authorized Sun dealer with 2 year warrantee)

Split it as follows:

 E450R -- WEB-FORMS tier
 E450R -- CM tier
 E450R/D1000 (12 disc) -- DB tier

You'll easily scale up to 500 concurrent users and when it's time to grow you
are already on Solaris -- get new Sun BOXES, move the datafiles and the
APPL_TOP - you are done in one weekend.

- Vitaliy
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