Re: NT for Production Machine

Clifford Buetikofer <clifford_buetikofer_at_merck.com> wrote:
> We're looking into NT servers and our current Oracle environment
> supports about 150 concurrent users. Does anybody have any
> experience/info regarding NT and that it can really act as a mid-range
> server ? I'm concerned that even with a really beefed-up NT server our
> processing/performance needs will be met.

NT can handle that many users without any problem, assuming that the database activity is largely OLTP.

The problem you will run into is that your database will crash fairly frequently -- on the eleven database servers running NT at my site, there has never been a seven-day period during which we haven't had at least one crash of either Oracle or NT.

If you can live with frequent unscheduled outages of service, NT may be the best solution in terms of price and ease of OS administration.

-bn
(the domain is "enteract" rather than "nospam") Received on Wed Apr 15 1998 - 11:48:58 CDT