A new whitepaper has been released that outlines the benefits of running Oracle Applications on SQL Server 2008. There are several advantages of running and upgrading Oracle Applications (Siebel,PSFT and JDE) to SQL Server 2008. A few that stand out include data compression, plan freezing, resource governor.

The table below shows typical savings for row/page compression on these applications. 

Compression type

Oracle application

Disk savings

row

Siebel CRM application

45 percent

row

JDE customer workload

69 percent

row

Siebel Analytics

48 percent

page

Siebel Analytics

66 percent

 

You can download and review the complete whitepaper at http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/F/4/9F4B4F2B-3853-4AE6-BD80-DF2D37F5C59F/SQL_Server_2008_with_Oracle_Applications.docx

More detailed techncal  Siebel and PeopleSoft on SQL Server 2008 whitepapers will be available as well very shortly.