Re: Operating Systems

From: David Penney <anon_at_noaddress.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:12:42 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <a9rifa$2s1$1@helle.btinternet.com>

Harold,
It depends what you mean by "best".
I am working with a couple of banks who are adopting Red Hat linux on intel, vendor undecided.
They report better, like for like, data throughput & compute resources than Sun & perceive it to be a fraction of the price.

Caveat: I am not affiliated to any hardware vendor & I have not tried this for myself, have not seen the empirical evidence or reports so this is third hand.
If they are even half correct, this would become a tidal wave of movement to Linux with very serious consequences for the hardware vendors whose hardware runs only proprietary versions of Unix.
If you do give oracle a go on linux, please post your methodology, findings & conclusions together with measurements and comparisons to other platforms.

Regards,

              David Penney
              http://www.metamatrix.com

"Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-family_at_attbi.com> wrote in message news:uR_r8.229480$702.39160_at_sccrnsc02...
> I think one important point is that (as you know) Oracle runs on a wide
> variety of OS. Some other databases try to lock you into one, not that I
am
> going to name names....
> Jim
> "Harold Flores" <ha_florez_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:a7f91b37.0204050918.d984cf7_at_posting.google.com...
> > Hello
> >
> > What would be the "best" operating system to run an oracle database
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Harold
>
>
>
Received on Sat Apr 20 2002 - 06:12:42 CDT