RE: Operating System Experiences - Oracle App Server

Kresmir,

It sounds like your answered your own question (and supported Mladen's position).

You already have Unix experience in-house. So why would you want to bring in another OS? Admittedly, the Windows implementation would probably be quicker and easier. But my experience with Windows platforms is that they work great for OLTP applications. But when it comes to supporting batch reporting, they suffer. Our systems just don't seem to have the backbone strength to support multi-batching throughput. It could be our hardware, but my gut feeling tells me otherwise.

I would go with the unix environment. In your case, simply because you already have Unix Admin's on site. And they can use their knowledge to support the new server.

Good Luck!

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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From: Kresimir Fabijanic [mailto:kfabijanic_at_optusnet.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 3:30 PM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Operating System Experiences - Oracle App Server

Hi

We have an IBM server (Intel based) with 2 CPUs and 8 GB of RAM for our 10g (9.0.4.1) Oracle Application Server.

We have a choice of installing it either on Windows 2000 or Linux Red Hat. There are possibly up to 150+ Discoverer users and 250+ Forms and Reports users (including the before mentioned Discoverer users).

What are your experiences in regards to the OS? Which one would you recommend based on your experience? Do not consider this as a start of a religious war, but rather the collection of your experiences. We have a lot of experience with Unix in multi-user environment, but in terms of Oracle application server and RDBMS, our experience with either of the operating system is limited to a single-user or small user community (5 to 10).

Kind Regards

Kresimir Fabijanic

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