Oracle Server Platforms - Which one is for me?

Hi,

We are planning to purchase oracle V8 workgroup server, the only question now is which platfrom to use.
Our evaluation platform has been Windows NT4 on and i386 machine. This has been reasonably easy to use - a nice windows GUI although we have not done much perfromance testing.

The question is what are the major differences as regards platform? Our choices will be :-

1. Windows NT on a PC - (something like a P200+ with 64M memory and SCSI HD
2. Solaris X86 on the same platform
3. Solaris on a Sun Platform

A PC platform will be cheaper from a hardware angle, but UNIX may be preferable as a robust environment, hence point 2).

How do UNIX(X-Windows) and NT(Bill-Windows) systems compare for ORACLE?

• Do we get the same tools?
• Is performance and issue?
• Is Solaris X86 a viable platform? (methinks this may be the wrong group for this Question)#
• How will it affect our client S/W?

My greatest thanks for any help anyone can give - please CC answers to my email address, as I dont get time to read the news as often as I would like!

Robin Poole
Senior Software Engineer
Onyx Internet Ltd. Received on Thu Nov 20 1997 - 00:00:00 CST