Re: ORACLE 7 Server on NT

In article <321088AF.58FB_at_yo.rim.or.jp>,

        Jun OZAKI <junio_at_yo.rim.or.jp> writes:
>I'm thinking a large database system where more than 10 users will
>dispatch transactions
>from the clients' PC at the same time.
A tiny database system like this could run quite adequately on almost any modern hardware box, but you may have to watch at socket accept rates (which I hear NT 4.0 does very badly).

> I prefer NT to Unix, because of its ease of maintenance, but a lot of
>people say any DB
>including ORACLE on NT works slowly when it is multitasking compared to
>Unix.
Probably the biggest difference is the I/O and buffer optimization that UNIX does. (Altho personally, I think that NT is one of the hardest to administer systems I've ever seen ;-) ).

> Besides the defference of the hardware spec, is there any reason of the
>argument?

I don't know what you mean about the difference in hardware spec ...several UNIX vendor products are also available on each of the various NT platforms, especially Intel and Alpha.

Bill Received on Tue Aug 13 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST