On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Chuck Carson wrote: > > 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. I am running a HP zv5000z laptop that has an AMD64 3700+. It works great with Fedora Core 3 test 2. I will be building a couple of AMD64 servers tomorrow.
