RE: *nix vs MS

The biggest single thing is that by design MS mixes operating system with user data, and it is nearly impossible to override that design. As far as I can tell there is no concept of being able to make the operating system drive read only for production, so any errant process has the potential to modify the OS.

The second biggest single thing is the culture of third party vendors simply slapping in their version of what was formerly a piece of the operating system when you install something and get a new *.dll. Even if they don't slap in a *.dll with a duplicate name, all the *.dll's still get slapped into the same "folder" as the operating system's critical bits. Okay, argue freely amongst yourselves whether I got them in the right order, and of course there is the thing that using MS puts money in the hands of a convicted monopolist.

Regards,

mwf

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Subject: *nix vs MS

Everyone,

We have a fairly large, truly mission critical database (Oracle 9.2.0.6) at a remote site that is currently running on Microsoft. In the past, others have tried to convince mgmt that the system would be more reliable on a unix os, but no one has ever been successful in obtaining a project to make the change.

To my way of thinking, the strongest case for moving this database to unix is the track record of this application; it has had far more than it's share of issues (bad backups, system crashes, corrupt blocks, hung processes, cpu spikes and so on) even though it already gets more care and feeding than other databases. (majority of our databases are *nix) This is one aspect of what will be presented.

That being said, for those of you who prefer unix, what are your best arguments for choosing unix for an Oracle database? What are the drawbacks? We'd like to make sure we uncover all the pros and cons.

Any input is appreciated,

Robyn

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