Re: *nix vs MS

Thank you to everyone for the input!! I'll be working on my doc throughout the day, so further comments are still welcome.

Mark, I don't think I can use the 'convicted monopolist' comment on the official paperwork, but I might have to borrow it for a few conversations :)

thanks again all,

Robyn

On 10/7/05, Mark W. Farnham <mwf_at_rsiz.com> wrote:
> 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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> 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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