Re: A server for Oracle WG 2000
Date: 1996/01/12
Message-ID: <1c7cc$e2d7.254_at_murdoch.systems.sa.gov.au>#1/1
Joe Arnold <70353.1622_at_CompuServe.COM> wrote:
>I need recommendations from users who are familiar with Oracle
>servers.
>I am a Macintosh (mainly) consultant. I have been developing data
>base applications using Omnis 7. This is a cross platform tool
>(develop on Mac, Windoze, OS2 and immediately it will run on the
>other). I need to set up an Oracle WG 2000 server that can be
>accessed by all the above hardware. I am torn between OS2 and
>Widows NT.
>Has anyone gone through this and would you share your information to
>a beginner?
>Thanks,
>Joe Arnold
>Mac Systems Consultants Inc.
>Atlanta, GA 30339-4137
>(770) 435-9282
We use an Alpha Server 4, running windows NT as our database server, using clients which are running NT, windows 3.1 or wfwg. I find administration is wonderfully easy under NT (as compared to VMS and UNIX, with which I have had most of my previous experience).
I have only ever played with OS2 and never as a database server, but NT makes for a pretty robust, understandable and highly functional platform. I think you would be hard pressed to find a better one.
The complicated issues seem to arrise when you are trying to run multiple network protocols - the need then arrises to have a gateway machine handling the communication bridge from one protocol to the other. With the clients you mention above, running tcp/ip for everything shouldn't be a problem.
NT seems to have a larger user base than OS/2 as well, I would see this as being a very pertinent factor, since support is one of the hottest issues I find, with oracle. There are going to be bugs, you would be well advised to have lot's of other people screaming for the same fixes as you need, in order to get them done in a timely fashion.
Hope this is of use, email if you want more info. cheers,
Tony Sampson
DBA/software terrorist, South Australian Government Financing Authority sampson_at_dtf.sa.gov.au
The unnatural, that too is natural.
Goethe
Received on Fri Jan 12 1996 - 00:00:00 CET