At the risk of starting an OS war, I would **never** recommend any OS = from Redmond WA as something to depoly on. ----------------- Ron Reidy Lead DBA Array BioPharma, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kresimir Fabijanic Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 1:30 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Operating System Experiences - Oracle App Server Hi We have an IBM server (Intel based) with 2 CPUs and 8 GB of RAM for our = 10g (9.0.4.1) Oracle Application Server. We have a choice of installing it either on Windows 2000 or Linux Red = Hat. There are possibly up to 150+ Discoverer users and 250+ Forms and = Reports users (including the before mentioned Discoverer users). What are your experiences in regards to the OS? Which one would you recommend based on your experience? Do not consider this as a start of = a religious war, but rather the collection of your experiences. We have a = lot of experience with Unix in multi-user environment, but in terms of = Oracle application server and RDBMS, our experience with either of the = operating system is limited to a single-user or small user community (5 to 10). Kind Regards Kresimir Fabijanic -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l This electronic message transmission is a PRIVATE communication which = contains information which may be confidential or privileged. The information is = intended=20 to be for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are = not the=20 intended recipient, please be aware that any disclosure, copying, = distribution=20 or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please notify = the sender of the delivery error by replying to this message, or notify us = by telephone (877-633-2436, ext. 0), and then delete it from your system. -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l