Re: Oracle on NT...Why Not?

Jim Kennedy wrote:
>
> Interesting artical in the March 26th issue of PC Mag. The artical about
> departmental servers. PC Mag used two NOSs to perfom throughput tests.
> Netware 3.12 and NT 3.51 (service pack 2). Amazing how file throughput on
> Netware was double that of NT once you got above 28 clients. I suspect that
> that difference might show up on running an RDBMS on the two platfforms.
>
> Granted Netware does not have sexy graphics, but it is efficient.
> Would it be faster than the aformentioned high performance machines (T-500 or
> a DEC Alpha); no way. My experience has been that running Oracle under
> Netware vs NT on the same hardware is that Oracle under Netware will easily
> outperform Oracle under NT.
>
> Jim Kennedy

Yes, our comparision of Oracle on Intel OS's came to the same result. NetWare and OS/2 are fast, NT slow and Solaris somewhere between them.

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        Arne


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