Re: NT & 100 gig Oracle

WGP0048 wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> My name is Bill Perkins and I am a DBA with the Kansas Department of
> Revenue and have eight years of mainframe experience. We are currently:
:
> We have seriously been considering going to a two tier application using
> Oracle Server for NT as our main datastore instead of DB2 on a mainframe.
> I have not been able to locate current users of Oracle running under NT
> with our size of datastore and users.
>
> If there are Oracle users currently running under NT, I would like to get
> in touch with them to see how they are configured and what we should look
> for if we go to Oracle for our main datastore. I can be reached at
> 913-296-0048 or emailed at wgp0048_at_aol.com.
>
> Thank you for your time to read this note.

Bill,

Any thoughts of running ORACLE on UNIX? ORACLE on UNIX with over 100 GB of data in a real production environment is a proven technology not a paperware. Example: NCR5100, SP2/AIX. Window NT, whys? With its relatively "im-maturity", you will have to experience its growing pain. And please, keep in mind that Window NT is NOT an open system. So, to me choosing Window NT is like choosing another IBM-equivalent OS, a proprietary OS. If that is the case, I would rather stick with DB2/MVS a proving technology.

-Ted.

• Theodore Do =
• Technical Consultant, UNIX/ORACLE =
• TRW Information Technology Services =
• theodore.do_at_trw.com =

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