Re: Platform Decision: NT or Solaris

If the database is going to be terabytes, you'll probably soon hit the limited scalability of NT.
Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

Joel Horner <joel_at_jbhorner.com> wrote in message news:zsmo4.6092$Ea4.71290_at_nnrp2-w.snfc21.pbi.net...
> I have a dilemma. I'm working with an organization that is trying to
decide
> its long-term strategy for data access. Their current thinking is that
they
> will use Windows NT accross all their systems, and thus lower their
> administration costs (by hiring only NT people). They will be
implementing
> a rather large set of tables (terabytes) over a period of time. In
working
> with their metaphor of NT everywhere, they want to use Oracle 8i on NT.
>
> I've worked with NT for years (since the first version), and have found it
> to be risky in "high availability" environments. I've seen too many
> blue-screens that just appeared to happen for no reason (on servers that
had
> been up for a long time). This leads me to my question: Which
environment
> is best suited for a high-availability Oracle installation, NT 4.0, or Sun
> Solaris? Any help that is factual (emotions can't sell this one) are
> appreciated!
>
> When Oracle was asked this question, the reply was that either environment
> would be fine. I would expect them to say this, since they are selling
the
> product on both platforms. They also said, however, that they didn't have
> any benchmarks comparing 8i on NT verses Solaris. I find that VERY
> difficult to swallow.
>
> Having said that, practical experience will be much better. :-)
>
> Thanks!
> Joel
>
>
>
Received on Thu Feb 10 2000 - 00:22:15 CST