Re: A performance question: Unix v/s NT

Just try scheduling a backup job on NT, its a nightmare.

Hassan Abba
Oracle DBA/Developer

Nuno Souto wrote:

> Scott Johnson wrote:
> >
> > I'm sure you'll agree that NT admin is much easier
> > than any UNIX system.
>
> Sorry, strongly disagree. I speak with knowledge of both. UNIX for
> many
> many years, NT for the last 5 with a course on admin of it thrown in
> to
> make sure I wasn't missing something. Looks easier, but once you're
> past the glossy GUI admin stuff, NT is just as hard or even much
> harder
> than UNIX to admin. At least in UNIX I know exactly which config or
> admin files (all text, therefore easy to edit) I need to change.
> Documentation is DIRT EASY to find.
>
> In NT, it's invariably some obscure and undocumented registry setting
>
> that someone leaked out of somewhere else. Call that easy? You're
> kidding of course...
>
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> nsouto_at_acay.com.au
Received on Thu Aug 28 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT