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Mike - Why don't you ask the salesrep for comparative benchmarks for Oracle
performance on this hardware under both O.S. choices? If your shop has been
doing well with NT and doesn't have much Unix experience, then you might
actually (gives me the shivers to say this) be happier with W2K. In my
experience, a shop does best supporting the O.S. it is most familiar with.
I've seen shops keep some pretty nasty old systems going just because they
had years of experience with it. And I've seen shops very unhappy with what
most people think of as the top-notch systems but they were starting out
from ground zero. Also, is that SCO Unixware? What is the support / future
direction like for that one?
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 1:49 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Hi,
For a couple of years we have been running Oracle on NT on a Unisys server. We are in the process of acquiring a new server (ES7000) and I am pushing for the move to Unix. Now, out of the blue, the Unisys rep is now trying to move us to W2000 instead of Unixware. His claim is that Oracle is starting to pay more attention to Intel machines and W2000 and is improving the performance of Oracle on such platforms. I'll spare you all the prattle ...
It seems to me to be a big red flag when the vender tries to steer us away from one of their own products, saying that they are 'focusing on W2000 rather than Unixware'.
Question: Is Oracle really increasing the effort it puts into the W2000 platform? I am tired of being at the bottom of the list for patches. Question: If we are locked into a Unisys machine (which we are) would W2000 truly be a better choice than Unixware ? Question: Do I smell a rat?
Thanks,
Mike
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