Re: NT or UNIX for server?

Rob,

I would recommend a UNIX platform for a server. There's a widely known phenom in the NT world after some hard crashes called power-cycle. Fortunately, this seldom happens for a Sun/UNIX platform where it is actually possible to do a complete reboot remotely. As far as the dbase itself. Either platform will still require lots lots of RAM and you have to put up w/ Oracle's idiosyncracies. Another thing you might want to consider is that Oracle seems to get their fixes/patches first on the Solaris platform. Good Luck.

Rob Ekkers wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I would like to get some general information on what is the preferred
> server platform for Oracle databases. I understand that NT's initial
> cost is less for a given performance level, but what happens than?
> Up-time, running months without rebooting, bugs, crashes, etc. I'd
> really like to hear about these things for all platforms. If you know
> about interesting references, please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob Ekkers
 

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