Re: ms-sql vs oracle on NT or UNIX?

To contribute to the neverending discussion:

Open VMS on Alpha is a very stable, fault tolerant system for Oracle indeed (in fact I love it). Nevertheless, so is SUN Solaris, Digital Unix, HP-UX. But I agree with you that these OS's are to be preferred above Win NT. It's not mature yet, it will be in about 3-5 yrs. (btw the designer of Win NT, is the designer of VMS !!!!)

regards,
Guus van de Sande
independent Oracle consultant

>
> Paul,
>
> NT and MS SQL Server can scale pretty quickly if you really need it to.
>
> If a box with a GB or so of RAM, 4 Pentium II 333Mhz processors and a
> bucketful of SCSI controllers and drives is not enough for you, you can
> always buy an alpha from DEC.
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> I think NT is scalable but like all o/s's it has a preferred range,
> certainly this config is at the top end of where it can go until you
> start distributing it over a range of servers.
>
> Still I'd prefer to use VAX'es if I wanna put a distributed Oracle
> network together.
>
> Cheers
> Bob Johnson
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>
Received on Mon Feb 23 1998 - 00:00:00 CST