Oracle buys Sun – hooray!
April 20th, 2009
More details here:
http://www.oracle.com/sun/index.html
Not that I care too much from the business aspect, but I sure hope this means that Solaris will become a viable OS to run Oracle on x64 platform!!! Btw the OS itself is already more than good enough – but it just should be properly supported by Oracle!
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This may be an unfair question but here goes anyway :-)
Do you prefer Solaris over Linux for running Oracle? If yes, why? Better debug tools (DTrace), more efficient use of server memory due to ISM feature etc?
Even though we all love Oracle , Open source software must be encouraged , work towards development of it . Worried what will happen to fate of mysql and open office :(
Wait and see what’s next:
unbreakable Solaris ;-)
Cheers.
Carlos.
Yes I prefer Solaris over Linux from pure OS software perspective. Even without DTrace, Solaris’es instrumentation is superior to what Linux provides. Oh yes I could download all the patches for Linux kernel and recompile it which would give me some more instrumentation, but this is not realistic in enterprise world. We want packaged, preinstalled instrumentation which is safe and works.
The example commands I’m talking about (leaving DTrace out) are prstat -m (microstate accounting), cpustat, cputrack, busstat, trapstat, vmstat -p (paging stats broken down by page type), vmstat actually showing the VM scan rate “sr” column etc.
And DTrace of course completely changed the game.
The problem right now is of course that Oracle is not properly supported on x64 platform, but if you run on SPARC you get less bang for the buck due slower CPUs, especially if you have CPU based Oracle licenses.
But I’m pretty sure Oracle will kick its Solaris x64 port running at full speed now!