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Re: Win2000 or OpenVMS

From: Richard Armstrong <richard.armstrong_at_juno.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:08:39 +0100
Message-ID: <1018962521.23056.0.nnrp-08.9e9809ca@news.demon.co.uk>


I worked with Oracle on OpenVMS some time ago and found that Oracle's support for this platform was not very good. Perhaps they don't sell a lot of software for VMS. The clients I worked for eventually migrated to a Solaris platform.

Regards,

Richard

"Hamid Bourchi" <hbourchi_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:a9h31r$gon$1_at_odysseus.uci.kun.nl...
> Hello,
>
> We are running about 7 years on Alpha 1000A/Openvms . After introducing of
> our new Oracle software (Oracle 8.1.7 and Forms, Reports and Designer 6)
> that we have developed for our research registration system, we faced some
> serius performance problems.
>
> Initially we considered to buy a new Alpha server which is still a very
> strong option for us. Now we are thinking about a very different option
and
> that is migrating to a WIN2000/DEL server. the total costs are lower then
> Alpha/OpenVMS and Win2000 is easyer to work with (as a system manager).
But
> considering the importance of this descition we would like to hear other
> poeples story/experince. Has anyone out there any experince with
> Oracle/Win2000 combination? How stabel is this combination comparing with
> Alpha/Oracle?
>
> Regards,
> Hamid Bourchi
>
>
>
>
>
Received on Tue Apr 16 2002 - 08:08:39 CDT

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