Re: oracle vldb on windows nt

As far as I know NT can handle only 4 processors and a maximum of 2 G of RAM.
IMHO this excludes NT for your 1 TB database, or your management is soon going to regret it.
The applications you mention are also not known as especially lightweight.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

attwoody <attwoody_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:7mnrsg$mat$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Greetings,
>
> I would be interested in hearing about experiences running Oracle
> VLDB's (500GB - 1TB) on Windows NT - what kind of servers, reliability,
> ease of scalability, etc, etc. The application would be PeopleSoft 7.5,
> Financials and HR/Payroll.
>
> I, personally, would feel much safer running something like this on
> either a HP N-Class, Sun UltraEnterprise 5500 or IBM RS/6000 S80 (when
> it comes out in the fall), but "dead presidents" (ie: cost of unix
> servers vs intel) are talking very loud and clear to the management of
> my company.
>
> Fortunately, the "dead presidents" aren't drowning out other
> considerations such as reliablilty and scalability; I'm being asked
> about NT more from the perspective of its being another option.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
>
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Received on Fri Jul 16 1999 - 13:47:31 CDT