Re: Advice about moving to Solaris?

3000 employees is not 3000 simultaneous connections. You'd have to be stark raving mad to run an organization such as Amazon.com on Windows ... and luckily my friends up the street at Amazon don't try to do it.

I would say the biggest issue for anyone moving from Oracle on Windows to Oracle on UNIX is that there is a learning curve. And initial impressions are that whatever you know and are familiar with is better thn what you don't know. Working through the challenges often changes that perception. I started Oracle on HP/UX, then went to Amdahl mainframes, then to Windows, and finally to Solaris. Each time thinking ... what the heck is this <g> until I figured it out.

Daniel Morgan

Niall Litchfield wrote:

> "Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message
> news:a20d28ee.0202150348.6c019fdf_at_posting.google.com...
> <snip>
> > No, try to learn a *real* O/S. Oracle on NT will always be limited to
> > companies with 50-100 employees, because of the nature of NT
>
> The first bit of this advice is very good. learning more than one os will
> teach anyone a hell of a lot about both good and bad os design but also
> about how things actually work. plus of course the not rebooting so often.
> The second bit of this advice is clearly rubbish. we run oracle for all our
> critical database based business processes and have approx 3000 employees.
> win2k is perfectly fine for this load as was NT before it.
>
> Frankly this sort of advice gets my goat. If you can only configure NT to
> support say 100 users or it crashes every month or so then your NT skills
> suck. FWIW my Unix skills are very ropey mainly due to disuse. so if my
> linux box dies every second week am i right to conclude that linux is a bit
> crap or does the problem lie with the operator.
>
> --
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> Audit Commission UK
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Received on Fri Feb 15 2002 - 11:49:21 CST