Re: Operating system choice

To add to Kimberly's comments regarding ease of administration:

There was some data available a couple of years ago attesting to the fact that it took quite a few more man hours to administer NT servers than Unix servers.

Part of that could be due to the Unix being more mature and there is a greater percentage of very experienced SA's in the Unix world than in the Windows world.

I tend to believe that unix folks as a group tend to be more inclined to dig into problems, get to the heart of them, and fix them.

The NT admin mantra tends to be 'reboot' when there are problems.

Jared

On Saturday 26 January 2002 09:50, Kimberly Smith wrote:
> I will start by saying that I prefer Unix but I am not actually
> a Microsoft hater per say (despite some of my comments).
>
> You get much more control over the performance of a Unix machine
> to tune it to the particular purpose of the apps running on it.
> I feel its more easily expandable. With the exception of some
> patches you can install software on the box without needing to
> reboot it. Only one person can sign on to an NT box but that
> is not the case with Unix.
>
> In our case Unix has been much more reliable but that could be
> due to the administrators. That being said, I do not think that
> NT is any easier to administer then Unix. Sure if you just install
> the OS and then do nothing to improve it its easier but when you
> have fully loaded, busy systems, you need to be real careful in
> NT.
>
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> Sherrie.Kubis_at_swfwmd.state.fl.us
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 6:41 AM
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>
>
>
> The topic of "Oracle on NT vs. Oracle on UNIX" has been addressed many
> times before, but in my searches I have not found hard statistics to
> support either choice. I have been running Oracle on Tru64 UNIX for six
> years, and it has been rock solid. I have no experience with NT other than
> my desktop running OEM. As our budget time approaches along with hardware
> replacement looming, I have been approached by a manager who feels that we
> should move in the direction of replacing our UNIX servers with Intel
> servers. His justification for this move is cost. I've seen many
> references to poor stability of Oracle on NT, but all opinion, not facts.
> This manager feels it is just "Microsoft Haters" who are saying this
> because they hate NT and want UNIX. Personally, I think adding an Oracle
> NT Server into the mix would give me experience in that area, always a good
> thing, but I also worry about the stability and availability of my database
> that I would be presenting to my customers. If anyone has any insights,
> statistics, facts or links to documentation presenting such, I'd sure
> appreciate the help.
>
>
>
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>
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