Re: UNIX or NT

Actually, I am developing and administering an NT4.0 (oracle 7.3) 65 gig database and I have found it to be very reliable so far (20 users would pose no problems by the way). However, I am not running an OLTP application. I do believe, however, that NT is becoming more and more stable every day and that eventually will be quite competitive with UNIX. There is no doubt, that at this point, UNIX is more robust. NT does handle small-medium databases (under 80-100gig) rather nicely. If your database is large, or has many transactions/second, I would definitely go the UNIX route. It is important to know that Oracle now uses NT as a testing platform on the same development tier as Solaris. They have an entire department that tests on NT (both 4.0 an 3.51). There are some weird quirky differences between NT and UNIX (i.e. NT has this service thing that is kind of difficult to differentiate from an actual instance...it's a fine line). However, it's just a matter of finding a comfort and familiarity level.

Laurie

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Robert Hatcher <robert.l.hatcher_at_scsnet.com> wrote in article
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> 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

> > 

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