Re: Oracle NT or UNIX (was Re: Oracle Right choice for a City?)

I don't know why anyone else might say don't use NT or Netware but I know why I prefer UNIX.

In my experience NT has not proven to be a stable or reliable environment. I have two NT servers, neither of which has gone a whole week without crashing. Having come out of a UNIX environment where we would reboot our servers once a quarter just to assure ourselves that there were no problems I am of the opinion that NT isn't quite ready for prime time. I know that NT is the operating system of the future -- but I work in the present.

If you do want to go with NT and an RDBMS overengineer your hardware configuration to protect you from the vagaries of NT. If you have more than one processor go to a multinode configuration with your processors split among the nodes. Use a multiport RAID or Storage Server.

Jerry

Darrell Coons wrote:
>
> Jan Andersen wrote in message <344C55C6.CA5317_at_127.0.0.1>...
> >City of Live Oak wrote:
> >
 

> >Two recommendations: 1. Get a UNIX machine for your Oracle - neither
> >NT nor Netware are good for this purpose. 2. Take great care to design
>
> Why is NT such a bad choice for Oracle? Is it simply a scalability and
> performance kind of issue, or are there problems with Oracle itself running
> on NT?
>
> Darrell
> dcoons_at_roch875.mc.xerox.com
Received on Fri Oct 24 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT