From: Halina Monka <hmonka@ibm.net>
Subject: Re: Netware Vs NT with Oracle
Date: 1997/07/07
Message-ID: <33C1113D.1E1D@ibm.net>#1/1
References: <kmhA7FA8tPvzEwbD@adv-expert-sys.demon.co.uk> <33BE2C81.89E59845@no-spam.pmcgettigan.demon.co.uk>
Reply-To: hmonka@ibm.net
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server



Steve Phelan wrote:
> 
> Andrew Walker wrote:
> 
> > The company I work for is thinking of networking the office. We have
> > 15
> > PCs/users needing access to a server housing an Oracle database.
> > We don't know whether to go for Novell Netware or Windows NT. Which
> > would perform best? Has anyone got any opinions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Andy.
> > --
> > Andrew Walker, Senior Programmer, Advanced Expert Systems Ltd.
> 
> I've run Oracle on both NT and Netware. Given the choice I'd choose NT
> any day (much easier to install and manage; new releases come out first
> on NT, as do fixes; NT 'pages' memory,  unlike Netware; etc., etc.)
> 
> Only reason I can think of using Netware over NT is when you have a site
> that is pure Novell with no Microsoft NT knowledge in place.
> 
> Of course, UNIX is *much, much* better than NT... Ah, I can feel the
> flames starting already! :-)
> 
> Steve Phelan.

Strongly agree, Unix is the best platform for the database server.
Scalable, tunable, customizable - but more technical expertize is needed
to manage it.
Halina