Re: oracle vldb on windows nt

You might want to check ntsolutions.oracle.com. It's down at the moment, but it will probably come back eventually.

Sybrand Bakker wrote:

> As far as I know NT can handle only 4 processors and a maximum of 2 G of
> RAM.
> IMHO this excludes NT for your 1 TB database, or your management is soon
> going to regret it.
> The applications you mention are also not known as especially lightweight.
>
> Hth,
>
> Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
>
> attwoody <attwoody_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message
> news:7mnrsg$mat$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I would be interested in hearing about experiences running Oracle
> > VLDB's (500GB - 1TB) on Windows NT - what kind of servers, reliability,
> > ease of scalability, etc, etc. The application would be PeopleSoft 7.5,
> > Financials and HR/Payroll.
> >
> > I, personally, would feel much safer running something like this on
> > either a HP N-Class, Sun UltraEnterprise 5500 or IBM RS/6000 S80 (when
> > it comes out in the fall), but "dead presidents" (ie: cost of unix
> > servers vs intel) are talking very loud and clear to the management of
> > my company.
> >
> > Fortunately, the "dead presidents" aren't drowning out other
> > considerations such as reliablilty and scalability; I'm being asked
> > about NT more from the perspective of its being another option.
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> >
> >
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> >
Received on Fri Jul 16 1999 - 14:35:05 CDT