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From: John Seitz <seitz@pobox.com>
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Personally this is how I feel about the Oracle/NT debate.  Customer outgrows Oracle
on a NT box.  Get a Unix box (which does a better job then NT for app servers), and
put Oracle on it.  No matter what NT people say, NT is not created for HUGE
database.  I don't think the reliability is there.  So with Oracle you have a
choice of what OS you run on.  With SQLServer, you have to stick with NT.

Don't get me wrong, I will always use NT for small to medium to even large DB.  NT
is easy to setup, and administrate.  But I would never use SQL Server, because I
like having a choice of what OS I want to run.  I'm almost to the point of not
using NT also.  My Linux Oracle server so far rocks.

John


Masjid1 wrote:

> This is not an attempt to start a flame war. Or a mine is better contest. I was
> recently reading an article comparing the two databases and the author said
> both programs  were good and  that each could be used various  situations
> interchangeably but the author said this is true in only 95% percent of the
> cases. My question is what area (mainly the 5%)  is beyond  SQL server's
> abilities. I apologise if this questions has been asked and answered. Thank you
> in advance