I have to admit, that was one heck of an interresting recommendation. Do people still think windows servers (2003) still crash a lot or something? ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Sharples Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 7:30 AM To: orclwzrd@xxxxxxxxx Cc: mssql_2002@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: 10g RAC -- Multiple DB's and mixed OS so a complete MS shop with no linux experience will be able to run RAC on linux far easier than on windows. Uh huh. and all the people that run it on windows successfully are just kidding themselves?