Re: Oracle on Unix vs Oracle on win nt

Since Oracle 8.0 Oracle has a Virtual Operating System (consult the book of James Morle Scaling Oracle 8i for more details) so the different ports are not independent anymore. This allows Oracle to release the most important ports at the same time.

I would like to add also add another aspect. Administrators on NT (if the shop has an administrator at all) are usually handicapped because they *only* know how to use the GUI. You will find Unix administrators are usually more technically proficient. Thus, you will find less sites on Unix running Oracle, which basically look like a bomb fell on the system.
Too many NT administrators have insufficient skills, and are missing elementary issues with respect to their installations (nice example: server with 3 network cards, one with a fixed IP and 2 DHCP client. There was no DHCP server in the domain. This resulted in error messages in the eventlog every 2 minutes)

Regards

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

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"Alun Liggins" <a.liggins_at_btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> Agreed.

> Also add

>

> 4) maintainability -- its fair easier to upgrade/support Oracle on Unix

than


> NT because :-

>         -- upgrades/migrations --- registry swapping with multiple

homes...


> DLL hell, at least with 'oraenv'  and /etc/oratab

>             you always know where you are and where you are pointing.

>

>         -- on NT oracle runs as one process with lots of threads - hard to

> see what is happening

>         NT seems to need reboots to 'fix' problems which go away when it

> comes back up.  On unix this

>         is much much rarer (but not non-existant)

>

>         -- domain controllers on NT -- nuff said, but it makes remote

> support much harder, usually you have to

>         run some dodgy remote control software to get at the server, which

> is usually 'single user'

>

>         -- Also I think (correct me if I'm wrong) Oracle is mainly

developed


> on Sun (i.e. Unix) and then

>         ported to other platforms.

>

>         -- backups are generally harder to implement under NT

>

> NT does have good points, like the end - user GUI stuff is nicer/easier to

> use under NT than Unix.

>

> [Just what I think, feel free to disagree]

>

> Alun

>

>

> "Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message

> news:3CED46BD.A3F75B9_at_exesolutions.com...

> > AK wrote:

> >

> > > Hi,

> > > I need som help figuring out the plus points of hosting Oracle server

> > > 8.1.7 on Unix as against Win Nt. We currently host our Oracle server

> > > on win nt but desire to migrate to unix. What i am asking for is some

> > > statistics/figures and /or benchmarkin links. Oracle support was not

> > > able to give any help at all. They as they support both platforms and

> > > cant promote one agianst the other.....

> > > Very diplomatic..............

> > >

> UNIX is the same as the reason I choose Oracle over Access or SQL Server.

> >

> > I call it the "Three S's."

> > 1) Stability

> > 2) Security

> > 3) Scalability

> >

> > Daniel Morgan

> >

>

>