Re: Oracle NT vs Oracle UNIX

I have spent most of my life working with Oracle systems from version 4 upward. I have used both NT and Unix and I have to say that Unix has it hands down.

1. Unix is a lighter weight O/S than NT - you get better performance from your system
2. Total Cost of Ownership: Take like for like systems NT on SQNT or Unix on SQNT - Unix is faster and more scalable. Take like for like systems NT on PII300 with 128Mb and Linux on PII300 with 128Mb - 20% faster, Load on NT 10%, load on Linux - load; what load ?
3. If you are starting new use O8, it is the future
4. Stability - ever asked MS for help when your not a very big corp ? Linux already has a mailing list for oracle after 6 days (send subscribe to oracle-on-linux-subscribe_at_egroups.com) and the linux support is unprecidented on the web
5. Oracle on Linux with Samba support can get rid of your NT server altogether, is more stable and cheaper

rgds

davidw

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