Re: NT & 100 gig Oracle

Ted Do wrote:
>
> WGP0048 wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > My name is Bill Perkins and I am a DBA with the Kansas Department of
> > Revenue and have eight years of mainframe experience. We are currently:
> :
> > We have seriously been considering going to a two tier application using
> > Oracle Server for NT as our main datastore instead of DB2 on a mainframe.
> > I have not been able to locate current users of Oracle running under NT
> > with our size of datastore and users.
> >
> > If there are Oracle users currently running under NT, I would like to get
> > in touch with them to see how they are configured and what we should look
> > for if we go to Oracle for our main datastore. I can be reached at
> > 913-296-0048 or emailed at wgp0048_at_aol.com.
> >
> > Thank you for your time to read this note.
>
> Bill,
>
> Any thoughts of running ORACLE on UNIX? ORACLE on UNIX with over 100 GB of data
> in a real production environment is a proven technology not a paperware. Example:
> NCR5100, SP2/AIX.
>
> Window NT, whys? With its relatively "im-maturity", you will have to experience
> its growing pain. And please, keep in mind that Window NT is NOT an open system.
> So, to me choosing Window NT is like choosing another IBM-equivalent OS, a proprietary
> OS. If that is the case, I would rather stick with DB2/MVS a proving technology.
>
> -Ted.
>
> =============================================
> = Theodore Do =
> = Technical Consultant, UNIX/ORACLE =
> = TRW Information Technology Services =
> = theodore.do_at_trw.com =
> =============================================

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Good God man... Give yourself and your co-workers a break...  Do not
even attempt a 100Gig database on NT.  I mean why bother?  What does it
buy you...

Cheaper HW.  I seriously doubt it...  By the time you price out a 100
Gig system NT and Unix are going to be very comparable.

Ease of administration?  Nope...  Get a decent consultant in to help
configure you Unix server and make sure you only use it as a database
server and administration is less of a headache than you think...

100Gig databases are by definition "NON-Trivial"  NT just isn't there
yet....  Course this is only my opinion...  :)

Good luck...

Shaun
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