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From: Scott Shafer <sknd100_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:16:15 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003C52E8.20011114145534@fatcity.com>

Yeah, what was I thinking? Must be too much blood in my tequila system... ;-)

--S

"HAWKINS, JAMES W [IT/1000]" wrote:
>
> Scott,
>
> NT? I think the habaneros and tequila have finally taken over...
>
> ;)
>
> Seriously, stay away from NT. I have the unfortunate task of monitoring a
> few minor databases on NT in addition to my Unix ones, and I hate every
> minute of it. The locks it places on open files prevent you from doing a
> lot of things with the database up, it has to be rebooted every month, and
> it is a nightmare to administer remotely. We use pcAnywhere which only
> allows one user in at a time. I curse NT and Gates every day...
>
> Jim
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Linux or Solaris Intel. And maybe (gods help me! <gulp>) NT?
>
> Scott Shafer
> San Antonio, TX
>
> Regina Harter wrote:
> >
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Our SA/DBA is considering dumping Unixware and moving to a different
> > OS. Sun is out for reasons that are not being shared with me, probably
> > because they don't want to buy new hardware, so aside from that, would
> > anyone care to weigh in with opinions on what OS is most stable with
> > Oracle? AAnd will run on an intel based box? Ours is not a high
> > transaction system, mostly reads, maybe 100 users a day.
> >
> > Thanks for your opinions,
> > Regina
> >
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