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

Turki, I have experienced numerous stability and scalability problems with NT and would not recommend it for any service which you intend to rely. If you are considering Windows 2000, I would be *very* concerned because this is a new product, and you dont know what it's strengths and shortcomings may be.

I would recommend that you consider Unix, in some flavor, for your server platform. Let someone else find the problems with Windows 2000. It will help increase your hours away from the office.

Cliff

Turki Al-Qusaimi wrote:

> 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:
> <p>
> 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?
> <p>
> so, can the community here comment? <b>Is it advisable to use NT as a base
> for mession-critical Oracle installation?</B> Does it allow Oracle to grow
> to multi-giga-size seamlessly?
> <p>
> 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