Re: Platform Decision: NT or Solaris

Joel Horner wrote in message ...
>This leads me to my question: Which environment
>is best suited for a high-availability Oracle installation, NT 4.0, or Sun
>Solaris? Any help that is factual (emotions can't sell this one) are

I couldn't recommend NT for "high availablility" systems for the same reason as you, however I don't think this is the best argument against it.

I would say its scalability. We've got a 4 x Xeon 550Mhz machine with 4Gb RAM here and we're putting (potentially) terabytes on it too. The problem is, if that machine isn't enough (and we have reason to suspect it isn't) there's not a lot we can do. There just aren't many PC-style machines bigger than that.

The same machine in Sun hardware is low- to mid-range.

Oracle and NT on vaguly equivalent hardware run at roughly the same speed. (Although Solaris will run longer without crashing!)

HTH,
--> Stephen

     Stephen Darlington (http://www.zx81.org.uk)
                 "Never put a sock in a toaster"
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