Re: UNIX or NT

Doug Surplus wrote:
>
> On Fri, 16 May 1997 17:05:43 -0500, Brett Neumeier
> <bogus_at_address.for.spam> wrote:
>
> We have been ruinning a 30+ user production database (Oracle
> 7.3.2.2.1) on NT 3.5.1 since November. Both the database and the
> server have been suprisingly stable - only 1 unexplained lockup (the
> server just froze in the middle of the night).
>
> My only compliants on NT center around management tools and the lack
> of a good OS shell a la UNIX. On UNIX, I could automate anything with
> the shell, awk and other native utilities. NT gives you the same old
> DOS batch language and the at command (similar to cron, but not
> as flexible). I have as yet to get automated exports of my databases,
> although I have been able to run shutdown and startup scripts from
> within Arcserve's pre and post job options.
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  We have the same issue with NT (and not just for database stuff). A company called MKS ( see http://www.mks.com ) has a product called the MKS Toolkit, which has a very functional Korn shell amongst it's bag-of-tricks. This has enabled us to do a lot of the complicated tasks that NT does not have native tools to handle. It has made the us Unix types pretty happy.
  I'm sure other there are other places to get such stuff, maybe even for free. It's a shame Microsoft has yet to deliver a fully featured OS, maybe NTv5 will include more stuff so you don't have to build it yourself.

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