Re: Advantages of Oracle on Windows over Unix

HansF wrote:

> Based on my personal experience, I'd say there are absolutely no
> advantages of running Oracle on WIndows over Oracle on Linux. And
> absolutely none the other way 'round either.

I can give you one the other way 'round.

Every experience I have had with Oracle RAC on Windows has involved failovers that were within Oracle's published numbers but were glacial. Take the same hardware, install RedHat 4 Update 2 and those exact same failovers, on the exact same hardware, are subsecond.

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