RE: Operating Systems

All,

Interesting comments regarding OS selection. Of course, this has been covered in the past at great length.

Let me add my 2 cents.

NT is a very viable option if it is being administered by a competent NT Admin who does not treat the box like a home desktop.

I have been working on NT boxes for two years now, and have seen the worst and best it has to offer. The worst is when it is not respected as a true operating system. The best is when it is managed carefully and with great fore-thought.

I have not experienced *any* of the comments made in this thread - like rebooting every so often. I have very stable, powerfull machines that are being managed by the best NT admins I have every seen, and they are performing very nicely, thank you.

In my opinion, they are a viable platform solution.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 8:53 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

I guess that on Intel platform you don't have other choice than Linux and Oracle fo Linux.

Database on NT = highway to hell and you cruise at high speed

JP

On Thu 15. November 2001 13:40, you wrote:
> That leaves NT for shops that require customer support...
>
> Regards,
> Patrice Boivin
> Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Pruner [SMTP:jan_at_pruner.cz]
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 7:55 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: Operating Systems
>
> From our root:
> Don't use Solaris on Intel.
> It's very very unstable and doesn't support too much HW.
>
> JP

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