Unix is harder.
ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2002, Number 026
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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 09:39:53 -0500
Subject: Operating system choice
The topic of Oracle on NT vs. Oracle on UNIX has been addressed many
times before, but in my
, 25 Jan 2002 09:39:53 -0500
Subject: Operating system choice
The topic of Oracle on NT vs. Oracle on UNIX has been addressed many
times before, but in my searches I have not found hard statistics to
support either choice.
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To add to Kimberly's comments regarding ease of administration:
There was some data available a couple of years ago attesting to
the fact that it took quite a few more man hours to administer NT
servers than Unix servers.
Part of that could be due to the Unix being more mature and there
is a
I will start by saying that I prefer Unix but I am not actually
a Microsoft hater per say (despite some of my comments).
You get much more control over the performance of a Unix machine
to tune it to the particular purpose of the apps running on it.
I feel its more easily expandable. With the
Server on Intel HW?
Choose Linux to run your Oracle server.
JP
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The topic of Oracle on NT vs. Oracle on UNIX has been addressed many
times before, but in my
The topic of Oracle on NT vs. Oracle on UNIX has been addressed many
times before, but in my searches I have not found hard statistics to
support either choice. I have been running Oracle on Tru64 UNIX for six
years, and it has been rock solid. I have no experience with NT other than
my desktop
We have both. NT is MUCH easier to manage and set up. But unless you put
some money in the hardware it is not as stable. Our applications have lots
of interfaces to other servers. Lots of scheduled batch jobs. This seems
to cause a lot of processes to get started that never stop. They tie
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thing, but I also worry about the stability and availability of my database
that I would be presenting to my customers. If anyone has any insights,
statistics, facts or links to documentation presenting such, I'd sure
appreciate the help.
i can only relate my
