Re: Intel NT or Alpha OpenVMS ?

In an ideal world I would agree - however you have to take a view over whether OpenVMS has a medium to long term future. I would love to say it has but honestly I feel unable.

For reliable longer term resilient systems you really need to look at Unix - as much as it galls me to say so. Possibly consider AS400.

Regards

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Kevin A Lewis (BOCM PAULS LTD) - Animal Feed Manufacturer - Ipswich United Kingdom)

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The views expressed herein by the author of this document are not necessarily those of BOCM PAULS Ltd. Martin Hepworth <maxsec_at_totalise.co.uk> wrote in message news:38981175.63FCE371_at_totalise.co.uk...
> "Juan Carlos Rodríguez" wrote:
> >
> > Hi !,
> >
> > We have an Oracle Database on an Alpha with OpenVMS o.s. and currently
there
> > are 100 concurrent users accessing the database.
> > This year we are increasing the number of users to 200-300 and we are
> > planning to adquire new hardware to increase power to support this
growth.
> > We need a High Availability system, and we plan to use Oracle Standby.
> >
> > Here's the dilemma: Intel WindowsNT or Alpha OpenVMS ?
> >
> > Is reliable an Oracle system with 300 concurrent users on a WindowsNT
o.s?
> >
> > Thanks you very much.
>
> Juan
>
> The problem here is Windows NT. Its not reliable, and to get it to cope
> with this load you'll have to do some fancy clustering and
> loadbalancing.
>
> Stick with VMS
>
> martin
Received on Wed Feb 02 2000 - 08:51:28 CST