Re: Platform choice

Personally, I would stick with UNIX. Granted, NT has all the nice GUI's to administrate things, even on the Oracle end of things. But I have found that DBA's like to use the command line, and UNIX seems to be much easier to administrate that way. At first I liked Oracle on NT because it hid alot of things. But as I started to have to administrate things, I found it not as easy as UNIX.

As to what type of UNIX? Solaris, HP-UX and Digital Alpha seem to be the top 3. Personally, I like Digital UNIX as its been at 64-bit longer then solaris, but as I said, its strictly a personal choice

As echoed in this thread, the main things that should be looked at is: memory - I like 512meg+ if budget permits; I/O bandwidth; disk storage; and if its in a heavily used client-server environment, a good fast reliable network (100-mbit).

My $0.02 worth.

Jamie Kincaid wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for advice on platform choice for an oracle database.
> What specifications in particular should I be looking at when
> purchasing a server to run Oracle 8i and Oracle application server.
>
> Compaq claim their DS20 model is 'ideal' for running Oracle.
> But I am unsure of what makes it so 'ideal'. What do you need to best
> serve Oracle (apart from lots of diskspace if you need it).
> Is Oracle more suited to a sun or a DEC or an NT or is it down to the
> OS?
>
> Many thanks for any advice received.
>
> Jamie
>
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Received on Fri Feb 25 2000 - 11:33:54 CST