Re: Best OS for the following...

hi,

i am little bit disagree..
if you are going for a large database and looking for performance.. alpha (tru64) should be your choice..
they are the fastest platform/O.S. as i saw from many articles...

also..
from oracle website.. seems tru64 is the best alliance O.S.

linux.. well.. if you go for production.. think before move..

:>

"Daniel A. Morgan" wrote:

> > 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 Tue Mar 20 2001 - 06:32:40 CST