Re: Best OS for the following...

> Sorry to come at you with the same old "Best OS" question. I'll try to be as
> specific as I can in the requirements as I know that it makes all the
> differnce...
>
> The OS's under condsideration are: HP-UX, Tru64, Win2k and Linux.
>
> Our IT group has technical competency in both Unix and NT 4.0 admin. Although
> I, the defacto DBA, don't have much too much system admin background. I will
> either have to learn Unix admin or leave the admin to our NT pro's (they
> don't like me playing with their servers too much).
>
> The target database will likely be small 60-100 MB of data and have very few
> real users. It'll mostly be used for batch processing and reporting.
>
> Hopefully, this gives you an idea of what I'm looking at. Any advice would be
> much appreciated.

Much as it pains me to say this I would say Win2K because you already have the expertise in-house and it will keep the "Microsoft-is-a-religion" types from going crazy. From the list above the best choice if you had a requirement for a larger database or hundreds of users would be HP/UX. And were I in your shoes I would go Linux because it is substantially better than Win2K from my experience.

Just make sure you extract a pound of flesh on this one. Such as making them come in on weekends and holidays when the O/S requires a reboot.

Daniel A. Morgan Received on Mon Mar 19 2001 - 23:33:02 CST