Re: The best server ?

From: Joel Garry <joelga_at_pebble.ml.org>
Date: 28 Apr 1998 11:53:13 -0700
Message-ID: <6i58ip$d68$1@pebble.ml.org>

In article <6i3hpm$2oh_at_news1.rad.net.id>, James Tomasouw <james_at_stikom-sby.ac.id> wrote:
>Hi,
>We plan to move our database from Foxpro & COBOL to ORACLE, but we confuse
>to choose what is the best server to run ORACLE.
>Is it NT or UNIX system ?
>We have four department and about 2000 records that we maintain every year.
>Also we want our database can accessed via internet.

Unix is the best, for most values of best. If you have all of the following, use NT.

You don't need 7/24.
You have NT expertise and don't have Unix expertise. You have someone powerful who thinks NT is the future. You don't have a great deal of batch processing to do. You won't need to scale up.

Beyond that, it's kind of a tossup, and IMO unix has a better tool set for a production environment. Use dejanews to see the various technical reasons and religious wars for going either way.

>
>Thanks for any information.
>
>Regards
>James
>
>

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