Re: Developing an Oracle App - Does the Server OS matter

Michael:

I would agree up to a point. At some time (hopefully relatively early in the devlopment cycle), you'll want to get an idea that nothing you are doing is making performance unacceptable. Then, it is a nice luxury to be able to stage a prototype in something resembling your production environment.

Assuming a client/server implementation, my experience has been that different OSes on the server side are basically transparent to a SQL/NET client.

(There are obviously other system configuration and management issues, but they don't directly affect the client.)

• Paul Close (Westat)

Michael Smith wrote:
>
> So, here's my question:
> Does the back-end server OS/Hardware matter, given that it's always running
> Oracle8, when it comes to development. My feeling is that if I'm developing
> an app to run against an Oracle8 database, then it shouldn't matter whether
> the back-end DB is on an Intel/NT, DecAlpha/NT, Linux, or Sun box, as long
> as my client computer can connect to it. Does this make sense, or am I way
> off base in my assumptions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike Smith
> Sr. Analayst
  Received on Tue Jan 26 1999 - 00:00:00 CET