Choosing a PC operating system under which to run Oracle server

I posted the following article in this newsgroup on Saturday 30th April, but unfortunately my news server interpretted the posting as an instruction to unsubscribe me to this newsgroup, thus ignoring any reply-postings to the newsgroup over the last few days.

I would be really, really, really grateful if anyone who replied to this article would repost their reply or email me at alun_at_specialcar.win-uk.net.  

Reposted article follows:

 In article <34_at_specialcar.win-uk.net>, Alun Webber (alun_at_specialcar.win-uk.net) writes:
>I am writing on behalf of a friend who is a database administrator
>in the information systems department of a large UK Plc.
>
>They currently run a GUPTA (I think this is how it is spelt) SQL
>server on an IBM PS/2 50MHz 486. This system has severe performance
>problems (due to the software, as I understand), and as part of
>departmental policy are going to replace this with an ORACLE
>server, unfortunately, again due to departmental policy, on the
>same machine.
>
>My friend therefore wonders if anyone would proffer an opinion as to
>which operating system they should choose to extract the maximum
>performance out of said machine running ORACLE.
>
>I realise that using this machine *may* be a crazy idea and I can
>think of many better solutions but unfortunately it's the only thing
>they're going to get. I have no idea about memory and disk capacities
>but I understand that these components will be upgraded as required.
>
>They are currently considering using SCO Unix or OS2 as an
>operating system. My friend would like to know:
>
>Is there an obvious choice of OS, out of the two above or other,
>which will have a marked performance benefit bearing in mind the
>limitations of the machine?
>
>Many thanks in advance,
>
>Alun Webber.
>
>alun_at_specialcar.win-uk.net
>
>
  Received on Wed May 04 1994 - 04:39:50 CEST