Re: Opinions Wanted on Oracle for NT

Xoltan <xoltan_at_usa.net> wrote in article <01bc5723$11754060$7cfd00cf_at_hdaffin>...
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> Both, I feel, are reliable OS's. But consider how long Unix has been
> about. It's only a matter of time
> for NT to be as robust as Unix. It is true that NT lacks the scripting
> ability of Unix... but when you add
> the public domain version of Perl scripting language... NT becomes very
> easy to script.

right, if you add
Perl and shell to NT, then add a bunch of other things, in other words make it more Unix-like, NT becomes pretty much usable..

NT "as it comes" sucks.
A simple task like counting records in a file or "tailing it" becomes a problem,
to say nothing about more complex operations.

Cordially,
Serge Received on Tue May 06 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT