Re: UNIX or NT

Any experiences on NT 4.0????

Brett Neumeier <bogus_at_address.for.spam> wrote in article <337CDA37.6DC3_at_address.for.spam>...
> Rick Morley wrote:
> >
> > > You would have to be crazy to use NT on this set-up. I wouldn't trust
> > > Oracle on NT even on a 20 user production system, it just isn't
 stable
> > > enough yet.
> > >
> >
> > Is it Oracle or is it NT that is not stable enough?
>
> That is a difficult question to answer -- in fact, it seems
> insoluble to me. Perhaps NT is unstable; alternatively, perhaps
> the port of Oracle for NT is unstable. Or perhaps the two are both
> unstable.
>
> The problem is certainly not with Oracle in general; Oracle
> on other platforms is quite stable enough to use for any purpose. But
> Oracle-on-NT has not been around for all that long, and may very well
> be unstable. I would be inclined to believe that NT does not provide
> the same system-level services that other operating systems do, so
> there are compromises in the architecture of Oracle-on-NT which make
> it less stable; but I have no particular evidence for this theory.
>
> Does it really matter? Regardless of what piece or combination
> of software is causing the problems, the problems still exist.
>
> -bn
>
Received on Thu May 22 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT