Re: Fantasy Oracle Implementation

Perhaps more importantly, what expertise is available for ongoing tuning and maintenance....If you have the UNIX expertise, its probably the better choice, but, if not,.....

Ron Reidy <rereidy_at_indra.com> wrote:

>Karl Nordquist wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We are currently a shop running Netware 4.11 and Oracle v7.3.4.0.1 and are
>> doomed on two points. Point 1 being that Oracle no longer supports v7.x and
>> as of December 31, 2001, will no longer support Novell Netware as an OS. We
>> cannot upgrade our current hardware to Netware 5.x, and Oracle v8.1.x is not
>> certified for Netware.
>>
>> So, since about February of this year we have been testing. First testing
>> our current hardware with other supported OSes. First was NT, then Win2k,
>> tried and failed with Linux and Solaris for Intel (same problem as Netware,
>> no drivers for our EISA disk controllers).
>>
>> Then we got a test box from Sun (a 420R w/Quad Sparc II 450 Mhz/4mb cache
>> each cpu with 2gb memory, and a D1000 running Solaris for Sun) and ran the
>> same test. It performed very well on all statements.
>>
>> Then we got a test box from HP (intel based LT 6000R, Tri Xeon PIII
>> 900Mhz/2mb cache each cpu with 2.25gb memory, and 2 disk arrays for 5 mount
>> points running Win 2k) and it tested as well if not slightly better on most
>> statements (except ones with heavy ordering and grouping).
>>
>> Now I am on the fence, so the question I pose is this, keeping in mind that
>> all above mentioned testing of OSes were of the OS straight out of the box
>> with no tuning. If you had the ability to do it all over again from the
>> beginning, deciding on the best hardware/os combination, where would you be
>> today?
>>
>> Please feel free to email me at oracle_test_at_brightwood.com or post to the
>> group.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Karl M. Nordquist
>> Application Development Supervisor
>> Bright Wood Corporation
>> Madras, Oregon
>This is sure to start a holy war...
>
>I guess the answer depends on how big your instance will get. INHO, any
>nix OS will scale better than Win anything. You will probably have
>better disk performance, and no painfull memory leaks.

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