Re: Oracle on Unix vs Oracle on win nt

Agreed.
Also add

4) maintainability -- its fair easier to upgrade/support Oracle on Unix than NT because :-

• upgrades/migrations --- registry swapping with multiple homes... DLL hell, at least with 'oraenv' and /etc/oratab you always know where you are and where you are pointing.
• on NT oracle runs as one process with lots of threads - hard to see what is happening NT seems to need reboots to 'fix' problems which go away when it comes back up. On unix this is much much rarer (but not non-existant)
• domain controllers on NT -- nuff said, but it makes remote support much harder, usually you have to run some dodgy remote control software to get at the server, which is usually 'single user'
• Also I think (correct me if I'm wrong) Oracle is mainly developed on Sun (i.e. Unix) and then ported to other platforms.
• backups are generally harder to implement under NT

NT does have good points, like the end - user GUI stuff is nicer/easier to use under NT than Unix.

[Just what I think, feel free to disagree]

Alun

"Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3CED46BD.A3F75B9_at_exesolutions.com...
> AK wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I need som help figuring out the plus points of hosting Oracle server
> > 8.1.7 on Unix as against Win Nt. We currently host our Oracle server
> > on win nt but desire to migrate to unix. What i am asking for is some
> > statistics/figures and /or benchmarkin links. Oracle support was not
> > able to give any help at all. They as they support both platforms and
> > cant promote one agianst the other.....
> > Very diplomatic..............
> >

UNIX is the same as the reason I choose Oracle over Access or SQL Server.
>
> I call it the "Three S's."
> 1) Stability
> 2) Security
> 3) Scalability
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
Received on Sun May 26 2002 - 06:59:04 CDT