Re: NT vs. Unix????

From: Jim Kennedy <Jim_kennedy_at_medicalogic.com>
Date: 1997/12/03
Message-ID: <3485a185.153307824@tnss03.telenet.ch>#1/1

On 1 Dec 1997 17:23:36 GMT, hboswell_at_lance.netdoor.com (Harry Boswell) wrote:

>Apologies if this has been asked to death, but I've been out of
>the Oracle orbit for the past couple of years. I've used Oracle
>versions 4, 5, 6, and 7, all on Unix machines. I'm now looking at
>a new Oracle implementation, supporting up to possibly 250 or so
>users, that may be on Unix or NT. Are there any red flags about NT?
>Is the DBA's job significantly different on NT? Any advice or
>general comments are most welcome.
>
>TIA,
>Harry

We have an application and have benchmarked it against Pentium Pro quad processor with 2 gigs of RAM and 12 disk drives and found that 250 users is about the limit. That is going to depend on how your application uses the database and how efficient it is.(host variables, array interface, reuse sql etc.) Did find that UNIX platforms get you more potential head room. On Sun we were able to get more total users and also on HPUX. In addition, you can realistically scale better on UNIX than on NT.

Jim Kennedy X7055 Received on Wed Dec 03 1997 - 00:00:00 CST