Re: Oracle on NT versus UNIX???

Hi:

You can find some NT-specific info on the site below that may help you a bit. You can find pretty good comparisons between NT and UNIX (in terms of scaleability, performance, and price/performance ratio) on www.tpc.org.

I also agree that trying Oracle on Linux (same hardware) is not at all a bad idea to try. Should be better availability, same or better performance, and lower cost (win/win/win). Btw, the Oracle8 Standard Edition for Linux is now a production release, not development. According to Oracle, release 8i (ie. 8.1.6 or so) will include standard edition and enterprise edition.

Good luck,

--
David C. Sisk
The Unofficial ORACLE on NT site
http://www.ipass.net/~davesisk/oont.htm

John Martin Kvalsund wrote in message <77f0tj$4m5$1_at_readme.online.no>...
>I have an appliction (IFS applications, any experience with that??) running
>on Oracle 7.3.3 on NT server 4.0 SP3. The hardware is a Compaq Proliant
>2500 containing 2 CPU's (Pentium Pro 200) and 1 GB of RAM. With approx. 30
>users of the application this server meets the limit. All available memory
>is consumed by Oracle and the CPU usage hits 100 % in long periods, (end
of
>months etc.). I have two choices:
>
>1: By a new 4 processor NT box.
>
>2: By a suitable Unix box (i.e. Sun Enterprise server 450) and convert the
>Oracle database.
>
>I've heard that Unix systems are more "CPU-efficient, more efficient code"
>etc. The ordinary Unix-excuses for being much more expensive... But how big
>is the difference? Is Oracle that much better on Unix than NT, or could a
>more powerful NT-box manage the same performance as a Unix-box?
>
>Appreciate any advice on this matter, has anyone done a NT-to-Unix
>convertion, what was the result, the costs etc.
>
>Regards,
>
>John Martin
>
>
>
Received on Fri Jan 15 1999 - 22:01:19 CST