Last weeks PC Week had an article that said Oracle on UNIX runs circles
around Oracle on NT. Not surprising. UNIX is the first platform Oracle is
developed for, then ported everywhere else. I think Novell is among the last
platforms to get new releases. Not surprising either.
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- Dan Clamage
http://www.telerama.com/~dclamage
If you haven't crashed the Server,
you haven't been trying hard enough.
Richard Markle wrote in message <36682EB7.91D3805F_at_isi.edu>...
> I was asking for pointers to articles to print out and give THEM.
I've
>read the benchmarks that said given identical applications on a terabyte
size
>DB, Oracle/UNIX was able to service roughly 3X as many connections as
>Oracle/NT, I know that NT doesn't scale well for enterprise, there is the
>sheer number of layers that NT apps must go through vs. the micro-kernel
>architecture of UNIX, there is the remote administration problem, and
given
>the fact that Oracle/NT doesn't have a raw partition, it is therefore is
once
>again filtered through NT, thereby placeing more software between you and
your
>data. But these are observations, not printable articles, which is what I
>think will be most convincing.
> For the record this is for a terabyte, multi-media DB. I don't want
butt
>heads, I just was looking for some pointers to articles. If you don't want
to
>help, please, please, don't respond. I don't need the condescension.
Thanks
>to all those who gave helpful pointers. It is greatly appreciated.
>
>
>Dale Cook wrote:
>
>> Just playing devil's advocate here... if you personally have no hard
>> facts about why Oracle/NT is a poor solution, why do you think it is
>> a poor choice? Gut feel?
>>
>> ----dale
>>
>> Richard Markle wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi. I am doing a little consulting for a friend and need to
>> > convince his management that Oracle/NT is not the way to go. Can
anyone
>> > point to some white papers or Web pages that can give me some hard
facts
>> > to back me up ( I got the benchmarking article off of the main Oracle
>> > site.)? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
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Received on Fri Dec 04 1998 - 22:01:09 CST
