From: "JustAnotherDBA" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle References: <48051fb7.0301310939.4c475c03@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: windows, unix, or linux Lines: 43 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly. NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 03:09:51 EST Organization: WEBUSENET.com Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 02:44:47 -0600 Does you company already have Unix or Linux skills available? If not, seems to me that moving from SQL 2000 to Oracle9i is sufficient. But, if your company does not have *nix experience, then you might not want to also take on switching OS. Of course, any DBAs would need training to adequately handle Oracle . But, do you want to also train Unix/Linux System Admins? My guess would be the performance of Oracle would be about the same on either OS . You may need more memory on Windows 2000 since it chews up a fair amount of memory compared to Unix/Linux. This is strictly a guess on my part. Although it may not be needed that often ... another big difference I noticed is ... if the server is under a very heavy load, logging into the server to debug the performance problems is a lot easier (more responsive) with *nix. Personally, I have worked on both and much prefer supporting Oracle on Unix/Linux . "Andres Leon" wrote in message news:48051fb7.0301310939.4c475c03@posting.google.com... > Hello everyone, > Our company is thinking about moving from MS-SQL2000 to oracle 9i. We > already have two very powerful servers running MSCS which could be > converted to running 9i and parallel server. > > My question is: is the performance between windows2000 advanced server > and a *nix OS running oracle 9i that impressive that would be worth > getting new hardware or at least installing the OS in these machines? > > If more info is needed to answer this question i will be happy to > provide it. > > Thank you! > > andres