Another reason might be that I have Oracle on a Sun Solaris server and in the last 
four years, the only time it has gone down is for hardware upgrades and power outages 
(manually after the building UPS ran down).  I don't want to get in a screaming war 
with all the Bill Gate lovers out there, but UNIX servers are just more stable. On the 
down side, they do need a more knowledgeable administrator who is comfortable with 
editing configuration files and using command line tools. I personally like using the 
command line. You tend to be able to have finer control and much faster command 
selection. I still shell out to dos on my windows workstation when I want to do mass 
copies (xcopy), formatiing.... etc

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/30/01 05:21PM >>>
Roy,

Forgive me my lack of understanding, but if you don't
know why one would choose Unix over Windows, why are
you proposing Unix altogether?

Yosi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 2:46 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Windows vs. UNIX
> 
> 
> this is not to bring up a heated debate over the two platforms...
> 
> I am making a proposal to move the current access 97 
> databases to an oralce 
> platform running solaris....  I would like to put in the 
> proposal a brief reason 
> why a UNIX platform will be better than a Windows platform.
> 
> the current environment: 
> 
> MS Access 97 databases running on Compaq server.  Databases 
> are about 20GB in 
> size...
> 
> proposed solution:
> 
> Sun E3500
> T3 Storage Array
> Solaris 8
> Oracle 8i
> 
> Just need a couple FACTS as to why one would choose UNIX over 
> Windows....
> 
> Thanks in advance....
> roy
> 
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