Re: Feelings about Oracle on NT Server vs. VAX/VMS

We have 200+ users, 100+ simultaneous.

We have run Oracle on NT for 3 years, first 7.3 then 8 now 8i.

We have a small database, around 5gb.

We had it on what is today a low power machine 2 PentiumPro 180 with 512mb RAM. We moved it recently to a double PII 333 as the machine became free, and we have plans at some point this year/next year to move to a 4 way Xeon, simply to keep ahead of demand growth.

Performance has been great, response times are what we need and we get no complainst from users.It very rarely gets cpu bound. Stability is superb. We have had two crashes in three years and it basically only comes down for an upgrade.

Of course everyone's situation is different but from our view to sum up, it is rock steady and there is plenty of extra power available in the market if you need..... and most of the NT scare stories stem from UNIX administrators<vbg>

Rob

Craig Prusansky wrote in message <3734f2ef.689751686_at_news.flinet.com>...
>We are planning on upgrading our Oracle installation from 7.3 to 8,
>and at the same time move it from OpenVMS/VAX 6.2 to NT Server 4.0. I
>have heard mixed reactions on moving it to an NT platform from a VAX
>platform (we were told that Oracle is no longer supporting the newer
>versions on VMS). We were told by some people that on Oracle on NT
>gets bogged down if more than, say, 30 users are connecting at one
>time. We have found that any machine that is not capable physically
>of supporting 30 users will get bogged down no matter what operating
>system is on it, so we took that with a grain of salt.
>I would like to hear what people are experiencing with this, whether
>it be good, bad, or indifferent, and if anyone has suggestions or a
>"heads-up" of things that we need to look out for when we upgrade.
>We woulfd greatly appreciate any input that is provided.
>Thank you.
>
>Lt. Craig Prusansky
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Received on Sat May 08 1999 - 22:20:00 CDT