Re: Oracle on Novell

As much as I am a Novell apolligist, I think your application is too big for a workgroup OS like Novell or NT. You may have to go with a flavor of Unix. Now, here's something to consider. NDS for HPU-UX should available soon, but I haven't seen a press release yet. NDS is available for SCO Unix. What you would gain is the managability of NDS on a hefty application serving platform. I would agree that NetWare 5 will make life much easier for large databases, but I think yours is getting to the obscenely large, which is really beyond Novell and NT.

My $0.02

Dan Peacock, CNA
Bus. Sys. Analyst/DBA
Wolverine World Wide

In article <6kvnb5$itt$1_at_news1.rmi.net>,   "Roger Loeb" <rloeb_at_martech.com> wrote:
>
> An Oracle "insider" told me that Oracle 8 on Netware 4.1 runs about 30%
> faster than Oracle 8 on NT4 (with otherwise equivalent resources). Is there
> any independent confirmation of that statement available? 30% is a lot!
>
> Our application is a large (1 terabyte+) database with heavy query demand
> (small queries returning, on average, less than 30 rows, but more than 1
> million queries an hour). There are some other Novell features that are
> attractive for very large databases, and Netware 5 will eliminate the
> IPX/SPX headache. I also understand that Novell has released some sort of
> failover/clustering support, although I don't think that Oracle has
> implemented Failsafe for Novell.
>
> Any suggestions, useful information, insight, etc. I'm sure tired of NT
> servers that have to be rebooted every day!!!
>
> Rog
>
> --
> roger@_delete_this_to_reply_.martech.com
>
>

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