Anyone Here running on x86-64 Hardware Yet

From: Chuck Carson (rhugga_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/29/04

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    Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:58:39 -0700 (PDT)
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    We are ready to dump Sun like a cooked-off hand grenade and have this grandure idea of moving to
    some of the AMD based Opteron 64-bit systems. Just curious if anyone is running this hardware yet?
    I noticed HP is already shipping these systems. The price tags on these system is just too good to
    be true. Based on a rough calculation, I can replace a $400k Sun Sparc III system with a pair of
    $30k AMD systems and get roughly the same system bandwidth. (I'm talking Oracle RAC here) Not too
    mention a significantly lower support cost and thus a much lower TCO in the long run. (well in the
    short run too for that matter) Also note that my administrative overhead costs will be much less
    for Linux as it is for Sun Sparc/Solaris.

    We want to move our Oracle databases to the first supported release using the 2.6 kernel on the
    AMD Opteron 850 series procs. We also want to move our Weblogic servers to the same platform as
    well.

    This is all in the next 18 months but I would love to here if anyone is trying this already.

    Thx,
    rhugga 

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