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I've worked on some massive Oracle databases and Sun servers. As Akulbe says, Solaris is a pain to use when you've used Linux/HPUX/AIX before. Cost is the oth
by CyberFonic 13y ago
I've worked on some massive Oracle databases and Sun servers. As Akulbe says, Solaris is a pain to use when you've used Linux/HPUX/AIX before.
Cost is the other issue, e.g. a couple of years ago a 21TB EMC array with a 32CPU, 96GB RAM system Sun HW + Solaris + Oracle licenses cost $7m.
Then there are the annual HW + OS + Oracle support costs easily 15% of your purchase cost. Plus good Solaris SysAdmin / Oracle DBAs earn $160k - $220k p.a. on contract depending on location. $220k in London, UK financial industry.
A startup can duplicate the same sort of configuration using PostgreSQL (there is a thriving industry replacing Oracle RDBMS with PostgreSQL) and a slew multi-core multi-CPU servers. And have better control over everything. Applying Solaris and Oracle updates, etc can be a royal pain.