RE: *nix vs MS
- From: "Goulet, Dick" <DGoulet@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <robyn.sands@xxxxxxxxx>, "Oracle-L@Freelists. Org (E-mail)" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:23:44 -0400
Why nix vs. MS. Well for first point nix has been in development and
use long before MS got off of the single user/single process DOS ideas.
Secondly MS still can't show you what's going on on the machine as well
as nix. Their still stuck in the desktop type of mode. Now I've not
been too much into how MS 2003 handles multiple CPU's but we recently
switched a 3 processor MS box to Red Hat only to find that our
processing capacity doubled. Seems in the nix would those hyper
threaded processors are actually 2 processors. And on top of that by
moving from MS to nix you knock out 99% of the OS attacks that are going
on to day. I just love it when my wife's Lindows system bumps into a
virus. Instant immunity to the attack. Course that's because MS is the
biggest fish out there which equates to being the biggest target. And
as someone else mentioned, you can't just telnet into a MS box. You
need something else like PCAnywhere or VNC.
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Subject: *nix vs MS
Everyone,
We have a fairly large, truly mission critical database (Oracle
9.2.0.6) at a remote site that is currently running on Microsoft. In
the past, others have tried to convince mgmt that the system would be
more reliable on a unix os, but no one has ever been successful in
obtaining a project to make the change.
To my way of thinking, the strongest case for moving this database to
unix is the track record of this application; it has had far more than
it's share of issues (bad backups, system crashes, corrupt blocks,
hung processes, cpu spikes and so on) even though it already gets more
care and feeding than other databases. (majority of our databases are
*nix) This is one aspect of what will be presented.
That being said, for those of you who prefer unix, what are your best
arguments for choosing unix for an Oracle database? What are the
drawbacks? We'd like to make sure we uncover all the pros and cons.
Any input is appreciated,
Robyn
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