What Oracle platform. 1

[kapstok]

Our application provider has told us to migrate from oracle 9 to oracle 10. We have decided that we want to buy new hardware for this. Now we are running on HPUx 11 cluster (serviceguard) on PARisc.

I want to investigate to what platform we have to migrate. This platform has to serve Oracle RDBMS and IAS.
Some solutions i have in mind are.
. VMWare (we already use for our windows servers) with Linux
. Oracle VM with Oracle Unbreakable Linux
. Itanium with (HPUx/Windows/Linux)
. A Linux cluster
. Windows on Intel

I want to make a god choice for our company. TCO is the keyword in my choice. We are certainly using oracle for the next 10 years.

Can someone give me an advise. Or some links to documentation on the net. I can not find anything useful.

Thanks in advance.

Klaas Tjibbe

 

[Thargy]

I would ask your provider why you shouldn't migrate straight to Oracle 11. What's the point in deliberately migrating to out of date software? If they won't guarantee compatibility with 11 for a while, why not wait until they do?

If TCO is the issue, then unbreakable linux must surely look good. Oracle are guaranteeing your OS and db for just the one licence fee.

Regards

T

 

[kapstok]

Thanks for your answer.

Unfortunately we have to migrate to Oracle 10 and can't stay on 9. Has something to do with converting/rewriting forms 6 to an other forms version served by the IAS server.

KTK