Having worked on both platforms, I would have to say stay with the
RS/6000. Oracle on NT is like putting the Mercedes hood ornament on a
Ford Pinto.
Anyways, you definately want to stay with a flavor of Unix. I'm not
really partial to one over the other. I was running Oracle 8 in an
RS/6000, and it was great, very good performance, reliable. We then
switched to Solaris on an E10k, so needless to say it got even better.
Currently we are slowly migrating our Oracle on NT to Oracle on HP-UX
and hopefully even Linux. Linux offers the ability to use our existing
hardware while at the same time improving performance and reliability.
I've run comparisons of our sales database (NT 750mhz 512mg) on Oracle
816 (Redhat 400mhz 128mg) and the Linux beat it hands down.
Received on Mon Jul 23 2001 - 20:08:30 CDT
