Re: Is it a good idea to run Oracle on Intel/NT?

NT in general is not as stable as any of the Unixes. Had personal experience with both and am switching stuff over from NT to Linux in order to get better control of the system, reduce down time and in my case dramatically reduce cost. (Seems MS may not like UNIX but they very much like their prices for things. Witness the evr increasing price of NT server and SQL Server!)

Rich Mycroft

"David Pomphrey - DNP" <High.Flight_at_btinternet.com> wrote in message news:397F6F27.781E_at_btinternet.com...
> Oracle was running on Unix while MS were selling MS-DOS.
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> Turki Al-Qusaimi wrote:
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> > Hi. Probably this was asked previously.. but I could not resist the urge
 to
> > ask this very knwledgable community a question that would let me get a
 way
> > from doing my (very messy) home work:
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> > We would like to upgrade our company's Oracle server to the latest
 Oracle
> > version (8i). We are considering switching from Unix as the OS on which
> > Oracle is installed to Win2k Server. We could not get Oracle to give us
> > stright answers to wither Oracle on NT will function as solidly as
 Oracle on
> > Unix?
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> > so, can the community here comment? <b>Is it advisable to use NT as a
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> > for mession-critical Oracle installation?</B> Does it allow Oracle to
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> > to multi-giga-size seamlessly?
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> > Just in case you are interested. Despite the fact that we never had
 problems
> > with Oracle Unix, we are considering switching to Orace on NT just to
> > standardize our servers and cut down on the maintenance headache.
Received on Thu Jul 27 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT