Re: Win NT Versus Unix
Date: 1996/08/26
Message-ID: <4vt1s2$v1s_at_sulu.prodata.de>#1/1
Don't use NT for mission critical applications. Whenever you change something it asks you to reboot. Besides, it doesn't scale well and degrades rapidly when the number of active tasks increases. Network performance is very slow, compared to a good Unix box. (I assume that you will use FDDI or Fast Ethernet, and NT can't saturate anything above 10 MBit/s Ethernet, even on a multiprocessor Pentium).
We are running a total of 5 Oracle Databases (total approx. 30 GB) on two Sun Sparcserver 20 and we have not had any unscheduled downtime since we installed them last summer.
It took us less than 15 minutes to upgrade one of the Sparcs to a multiprocessor configuration last month.
My feeling is that Unix is a mature operating system developed by people who understand what "mission critical" means to a client. NT, as opposed to that, comes from Microsoft, makers of the famous flight simulator and Windows 95...
Good luck! Received on Mon Aug 26 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST