Hardware recommendations for Siebel Database Server
we are planning to buy a new database server for our Siebel system and I would like to have your oppinion about which hardware suits our need (Type of CPU, RAM, OS)
Siebel Environment:
* Siebel Sales
* 5 Languages handeled by 5 OMs
* PIMSI, EAI, some EIM
* about 250 concurrent user logins at peak times
* 200 remote clients
So far, a Intel Itanium-based HP-UX server is running Oracle 10g and does it's job quite good. But since it's old, it needs to be replaced by something else (and hopefully even faster ) -> if possible, running Ora 11g on Server 2008.
Your feedback regarding
a.) whether Server 2008 can seriously replace a former HP-UX machine and