Re: Oracle & Alpha VMS or NT?

If you're talking about a small database with only a few users, you'd be a lot better off with an intel box running NT or Solaris x86. If you do absolutely HAVE to use an Alpha, use the smaller of the two. It's more important to have several disks (NOT in bloody RAID5 either).

I can't possibly recommend VMS since it's way way down on Oracle's list of priorities. NT is a tier 1 platform and generally gets new releases at the same time as Solaris (sparc).

                        Robert

PS: VMS weenies please don't flame me...I'm a member of DECUS and I support oracle on VMS, Solaris, HP-sUX, and NT.

On Mon, 8 Sep 1997 20:54:25 GMT, Douglas Scott <Douglas.S.Scott_at_boeing.com> wrote:

>My boss wants to setup a development environment using a small Alpha
>running either VMS or Windows NT and Oracle. The environment would only
>have to support about a dozen concurrent users. Can anyone tell me what
>would be required in terms of processor, memory, disk space etc. to run
>Oracle (7.3)? He's thinking of either a 1000 or 2100, but I'm not even
>sure of the model numbers. So if you have a suggestion for that too I'd
>be interested to know what would work.
>
>Douglas Scott
>Douglas.S.Scott_at_boeing.com
Received on Tue Sep 09 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT