On Friday 17 June 2005 20:55, Antoine wrote: > Hi, > Our company is going to be bidding for a contract that will require > about 45 lan connections (08:00 to 20:00) and a few web connections to > an Oracle database. > The contract states that we can only have 1 hr max downtime per month > (pretty generous really, I thought) and the boss, his head in dark and > nether regions, is, of course, looking at winders servers. > I must admit, I have no knowledge in this area, except that Windows is > not the best choice for high availability! Or is it? Seeing as it pretty > much only has to run Oracle, what would people suggest? Linux (and if > Linux - Redhat, Suse, Gentoo,...)? BSD? Or would it definitely be worth > the dolleros to go for an AIX or Solaris + Hardware solution? Or is he > right in thinking that Server 2003 is best? > We would obviously not be able to spend massive amounts, so a $30000+ > solution is not on the cards... > Cheers > Antoine > ps. we have only x86 servers at the moment mostly running server 2000 or > 2003, but the admin would rather be running linux...
hm, Dell, hp and IBM are selling some nice linux-boxes.. all you have to do is to tell them what you want and to help your boss, when his heart makes 'boom' because of the $$$. But at least, you'll would have someone responsible, when something goes wrong. And that it the most important point. Don't make the box for yourself, buy it. Solaris is a very safe choice, also AIX, but maybe you should talk to someone at oracle ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
