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From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: Adam Heath <doogie@brainfood.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: evil idea: oracle, postgres, solaris
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:35:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e473391050311153543fcb428@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0503111705200.1757@gradall.private.brainfood.com>

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:08:10 -0600 (CST), Adam Heath
<doogie@brainfood.com> wrote:
> So, we are getting reading to do some testing of oracle/postgres here,
> using 2 domU instances, same hardware, memory, disk, etc.  Standard stuff.  We
> are doing this to see which is better(a current client of ours insists on
> oracle, and the extra $$ that comes with it).

Sybase is offering free commercial use of their flagship Linux ASE if
you can fit in these limits:  one CPU, 5GB of data storage and 2GB of
RAM.

http://www.sybase.com/linuxpromo

> They also use solaris as their OS, and expensive sun boxes.
> 
> However, if opensolaris were ported to xen, then we could do even more
> side-by-side comparisons.  The license of opensolaris should allow this.
> 
> So, this is an open question: does anyone find this interesting, and would be
> willing to work on it?  Unfortunately, we don't have time, nor the knowledge,
> to do this(neither solaris nor xen internals), but are willing to help test.
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-11 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-11 23:08 evil idea: oracle, postgres, solaris Adam Heath
2005-03-11 23:35 ` Jon Smirl [this message]
     [not found] ` <E8557ABD-9668-11D9-A252-000A95BA91EC@austin.ibm.com>
2005-03-16 22:23   ` Adam Heath
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2005-03-12  8:48 James Harper

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