Joe,

Did you consider Allbase/sql as a migration option?
If not, or if it didn't work out, why not?

Richard

Joe Smith wrote:
>
> Sorry I can't help you with the connection problem, but I do have a few
> words of platform advice based on our experience.  We ran Oracle on our
> HP987 system for about 4 years, then the releases froze in the 7.3 range.
> Other operating systems were getting 8.x releases, so we saw the
> handwriting on the wall and started a migration process.  We were running 4
> instances with 20 - 30 applications or tablespaces under each instance.  A
> few of these apps were quite large yet performance was excellent on the
> HP3000, even with 3 other non-Oracle apps.
>
> NT appeared to be the best choice based on price so we started our
> migration.  To make a long story short, we have been able to run only 1 - 3
> apps per 4-way NT server and have been plagued by having to reboot these
> servers every couple of days.   We got up to 25 NT servers and still had
> much more left to migrate off the HP3000, so we looked to HPUX to try to
> centralize these apps once again.
>
> We brought in an HP9000 N440 2 way server, 5gb memory.  We have been able
> to consolidate the NT servers and migrate most of the rest of the HP3000
> Oracle apps to this one box.  Performance is better - it took quite an
> upgrade to beat out the HP3000 as a transaction processor.   Management,
> allocation of space to your instances, will now take quite a bit more of
> your time.
>
> Be aware that Oracle has implemented a pricing scheme based on chip speed,
> with a 1.5 factor penalty for Risc vs Intel.  This is a big plus  for Risc
> since you should be able to run 30x the number of apps for 1.5x the Oracle
> license price.
>
> If migrating your Oracle apps to Turboimage is not an option,  then Oracle
> on HPUX or even on Sun is the way to go.  Sun has other advantages such as
> more Internet apps and utilities available, in case you need to do this.

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