Re: Oracle on unix or NT

Hi:

Take a look at the web-site below. There's a decent comparison between Oracle on NT vs. Oracle on UNIX. Things to consider:

1. Say bye-bye to easy remote management via a command line. Not every point-n-click has a command-line equivalent.
2. Scripting for NT is getting better, but still has a ways to go.
3. Anyway you slice it, NT was originally (as Windows 3.1) designed to be single-user, where unix was not. There's still some limitations to overcome....
4. Anyway you slice it, Oracle for NT was designed to support small to medium sized applications, while Oracle on Unix was designed to support the medium to big stuff.

I would agree with the earlier post about considering Oracle/Linux/Intel as a possible alternative. If cost and/or price-performance ratio are your motivations for considering NT as a replacement for Solaris, then Linux will beat both of them in the cost category, and in reality you'll probably get as good or better performance and reliability. (Note that not everything is available on Linux yet, but Oracle appears to be firmly commited to that goal.)

Good luck,

--
David C. Sisk
The Unofficial ORACLE on NT site
http://www.ipass.net/~davesisk/oont.htm


Ed Lufker wrote in message <756t4f$dl1$1_at_sloth.swcp.com>...


>Hi All:

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> I am trying not to put my Oracle db on an NT platform, it is

>currently on a solaris platform. Could you help and give the reasons why I

>shouldn't move the database over to an NT platform.  Big picture stuff

>would be great. I only know unix, so I dont have clue what Oracle acts

>like on an NT box.

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>thanks in advance for any help here

>eddie lufker

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