Re: Which OS is better?

Greetings, Stavros,

  The classic answer .... "It depends".

  Oracle runs rock-solid on either Solaris, HP-UX or AIX, but   you need sysadmins and/or DBA's who know what they're doing on   these platforms.

  My observation is that the vast majority of UNIX sysadmins have   little trouble supporting NT (in fact, I'm an Oracle DBA, and   the backup UNIX admin, but I've also installed NT Server,   and NT Workstation, and have worked with NT Terminal Server   and Citrix MetaFrame), but that sysadmins whose experience is   primarily with NT tend to struggle with UNIX.

  The new 8-way NT servers from Compaq and Dell, especially Compaq's   8500, are fairly solid, but if you were going to put a very large   database on the machine, I think you would need to look at   MS Cluster and/or Oracle Parallel Server.

  No matter what Bill says, I've seen too many "blue screens" on NT   servers to be totally confident of their reliability without a lot   of supporting hardware and software. By the time you scale an NT   solution to that of UNIX's reliability, the costs aren't that much   different.

  In my shop, the NT servers have to be rebooted at least every week   or less; the UNIX servers are rebooted when the IBM or HP man shows   up to do maintenance on them (maybe once or twice a year)

  However, "dead presidents" ($) do talk - but make sure you get the   _entire_ conversation - you can pay less for an NT server, but it   could cost you more in the end, in terms of downtime and other   issues.

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Before you buy. Received on Wed Feb 23 2000 - 20:47:42 CST