Oracle
HP Itanium is very good hardware and 64 bit operating system. HP Itanium is the biggest competitor of x64 and AMD processors. Oracle database is largest RDBMS with extra ordinary features of large database supporting, high availability, maximum security. On HP Itanium processors, Oracle performs very good and providing excellent performance in compare to other competitors.
Due to this reasons and benefits, Oracle is becoming popular database on HP Itanium processors too. But unfortunately, Oracle decided to stop further development and future support on HP Itanium processors. It means newer versions of Oracle not available for HP Itanium and existing support will be going to end in future. There are lots of threads and articles available to discuss this same issue.
Now what will be happening with existing customers of HP Itanium who are running their Oracle databases on HP UX Itanium processors? Customers of HP should need to switch either operating system or database vendor. If there is no dependencies with other applications or ERP like Peoplesoft or Oracle e-business suite then those customer can be able to take decision to change database vendor. But those customers who are having dependencies with applications and ERP with Oracle, they can’t able to change database vendor easily.
Near future, if this issue is being solved then HP Itanium with Oracle user gets more relaxation from un-necessary difficulty and tension.
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