>> Was it a fair apples to apples comparison?

> Not in my mind, Oracle was running on a big multi-processor
> Solaris system with a EMC (but it wasn't EMC) kind of data-rack
> with fibre connect.

> SQL Server was running on a 2-way Intel with HT and local disks.

> In my mind that stacks it in favour of Oracle, yes?

How would I know?  The Solaris system could have been running a few thousand
processes, handling much more overall load than the Wintel server when your
benchmark was run.  What did you do to test performance?

Nathan.




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