Irony....
Here we are celebrating the T4 yet I find it amusing to see a link posted supporting the claim that for certain workloads a T-series CPU is just fantastic.. We're celebrating the chip we know Oracle will push in a sales meeting yet you look at the link you'll see the irony.
They used a Fujitsu for the DB layer. Not a T-series. Once the T4 is out which one do you think they'll promote?
(Kebbabert, I know your going to come valiantly to Sun's defence, I know you used the word "some", save your fingers from arthritus, I just find it funny)
Also, for those that still want to bash on about scalability at any cost you might want to remember IBM do a 4 socket, 10 core Intel chassis which allows two chassis to be coupled via QPI to give an 8 socket, 10 core setup. 80 cores, 160 with hyper threading & all running very bloody fast. HP have similar offerings, Oracle do as well though they might not want to mention nasty Intel servers these days.....
Sure someone is going to shoot me down but come on, Linux is more than NUMA aware (not like Sun had any NUMA issues of there own, think 4900/15k/25k) and yet this kit is a lot lot cheaper than Oracle sparc servers. There are a lot of real cores in a 10 core, 8 socket box.
You even get to choose the Linux flavour and which contract level you want & with the money saved you can buy the same again & cluster the bloody machines!
Open your eyes, not every single server deployed has to go onto Oracle Premium support.....