Re: PC net and Oracle

liang_at_mun04.gs.com (Luke Liang) writes:

>We are exploring the possibility of implement a PC net based client-server system with
>Oracle.The server considered is either a UNIX system or a power PC(if Oracle figure
>out a way to support multiuser).

   What does this mean ? Oracle supports multi user access on plenty of    "PC" platforms. OS/2 and Novell are two of them.

>The questions are:
> .Is it possilble using a PC server for multiuser? If it's possible, how is it
> compare with a UNIX server?

    Oracle makes a server for OS/2 and for Netware 3.x. Supposedly this     can also run on Netware 4.0.

    I've installed Oracle on both systems (Netware and Sun/OS). The Unix     flavor was a bit harder to install and we are using it as both     the data and applications server (i.e. the tools and forms both     run off of the Unix box with access via "dumb" vt220 terminals).

    The Novell Netware version was a snap to install and can be accessed     from DOS, MS Windows and OS/2 clients with relative ease. The operation     here is "client/server" in that the tools and forms run on the     local PCs while data is administered from a central server.

    For total performance, I would suspect the Unix box (A Sun     SparcServer) would blow away the Novell server. It really     depends on your application and the load you plan to     put on the system.

> .What kind of PC network does Oracle support(PC-NFS, Novell..)?

   Oracle has versions of SQL*Net for SPX/IPX from DOS, Windows and OS/2,    TCP/IP from DOS, Windows, OS/2, Unix and others.

> What kind of underlying hardware options we have(ethernet, arcnet...)?

   For the Novell network, all of the above are possible including    token ring.

   For a Unix based setup, you might be able to do other configurations    but I'm sure TCP/IP over ethernet is the overwhelming choice.

> .How many users can be supported and how is the performance?

   Number of users depends on the licence you buy. I've been running    20+ users on the Unix box with no problems at all and up to    10 users on the Netware network with very few performance    problems.   

   It's well known that Oracle supports a vast array of hardware    platforms. I doubt there is a configuration you would require    that Oracle does *not* support with some acceptable level of    performance.

>All replies will be greatly appreciated.
 

>Luke Liang Goldman Sachs
   

Rich Holowczak
Rutgers University
holowcza_at_andromeda.rutgers.edu Received on Wed Jun 23 1993 - 04:21:40 CEST