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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (53472)3/18/2003 12:33:34 PM
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Oracle's 'Mr. Linux'
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Red Hat and Dell Computer argue that anything bigger than an eight-way machine is doomed to niche status. Do you believe clustered databases are the way customers will do big databases on Linux?
Not just on Linux.

But particularly with Linux because it doesn't scale. You can buy a 64-processor server that runs Solaris. When Dell, for instance, says you're never going to need anything bigger than an eight-way server, maybe that's because, well, gee, that's because Dell can't sell anything bigger than an eight-way server. It's hard to separate the technology from the marketing.
But this is the important part: Intel CPUs are really fast. They have 2 to 3GHz CPUs out there today, so if anything, we're mainly bound by memory. You can run a lot on a two-CPU box with 12 gigs of memory. That means you don't need a 16-way Intel box to replace a 16-way Sun machine; you might be able to do it with an eight-way system.

Let me ask the question another way: If you have a really high workload, is a 9i RAC (Real Application Clusters) on a bunch of two- or four-way boxes just as good as buying a big iron box?
I think in many cases it will be. Of course, there are going to be exceptions.

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Has it made Intel servers more interesting to Oracle?
I think the answer is yes. It's all about cost. We're finally at a point where cheaper hardware can do the same thing. And Linux is all over the place.

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