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

If you want to test the performance then it's better to have a smaller server. With 5 tester, you will not be able to input as much information as i dont know how many user you'll have in production hence if you get performance trouble with 5 tester, you know you'll have trouble in production. On the other hand, if you test performance on an alpha server, it will compensate for the lack of performance giving you the wrong assumption that the system is perfomant. Oracle is effectively multi-platform so you can develop on a NT DB and use it on a Unix DB latter. One of the system i work on have been installed on VMS,HP-UX and NT and everything goes well.

In article <01be4935$5df9d120$3f177184_at_msmith>,   msmith_at_kepner-tregoe.com wrote:
> We are having a company develop an enterprise application for us that will
> use Oracle8 as the back-end database. There's been some question as to what
> server/os they should use for their development. Here are the stats:
>
> * 5 Developers
> * 5 Testers
> * Development in Delphi with ADO, DCOM, VC++
> * Committment to NT as the server (since they'll probably be developing
> NT-Services also)
>
> They had originally spec'd a $40K+ Dual-CPU DecAlpha with NT as the server,
> but we are questioning whether that is overkill for the development team.
>
> Our recommendation, for a development-only box, would be a Intel-Pentium2
> (or 3) 400Mhz box with 256MB+ RAM and around 10G HD (preferably one
> scaleable to 2 CPU's).
>
> The price difference is tremendous, but in my opinion the affect on
> development should be nil, however their opinion is that they need the
> bigger server for testing performance. However, with only a few users doing
> testing what difference will it make. Besides, we have already decided to
> use an outside testing service for the load testing.
>
> 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
>

Frank Delisle
Consultant, Eds Québec
e-mail: francois.delisle_at_prosig.qc.ca "Un problème sans solution n'est pas un problème"

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