I worked at a company that did telephone calling card processing. It was not
uncommon for these systems to handle 500,000 to a million calls a day. Thank
God it was Unix. These systems would run for months without a hiccup. In
comparison, the NT based machine that acted as a proxy server would crash
every two weeks or so, despite having a fraction of the system demands
placed on it. The NT system being used as a network bridge was no better.
The linux firewall ran for nearly a year with a reboot. It would have gone
longer, but a long term power failure ran the batteries down on the UPS. NT
is pretty, but it lacks the stability of Unix. NT is also a resource pig.
Thomas Bohan <thomas.bohan_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:810o48$oja$1_at_scotty.tinet.ie...
> My organisation uses ORACLE 7.3.2 on AIX 4.2 as our back-end for our
> software product.
>
> However, the B.O.D. is pushing the development team to investigate porting
> to NT.
>
> Personally, I have a preconception that UNIX is stable and powerful and
that
> NT doesn't scale and requires much rebooting.
>
> Is that True?
>
> Tom.
>
>
>
Received on Fri Nov 19 1999 - 13:06:53 CST
