SCO UnixWare,Linux,or Solaris .... ???
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I am building database system for a bank using Oracle 8i. Which Unix-based OSes: SCo UnixWare,Linux,Solaris should I choose ? And please tell the the reason why. I am a window man so I have no experiences in Unix OS. Thank You Very Much ! :confused::confused::confused:
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I am building database system for a bank using Oracle 8i. Which Unix-based OSes: SCo UnixWare,Linux,Solaris should I choose ? And please tell the the reason why. I am a window man so I have no experiences in Unix OS. Thank You Very Much ! :confused::confused::confused:
Solaris, because it's a commercial product and the fact that you're using an old version of Oracle means you're going to have enough problems. If you get to choose the OS, why not choose Windows ? Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002
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I am building database system for a bank using Oracle 8i. Which Unix-based OSes: SCo UnixWare,Linux,Solaris should I choose ? And please tell the the reason why. I am a window man so I have no experiences in Unix OS. Thank You Very Much ! :confused::confused::confused:
I've used SCO ( :-O ) but only for Informix CIsam stuff, SCO's pretty good. One thing to get installed what ever Unix platform you choose it Samba ( www.samba.org[^] ) it allows you to browse unix directories in your windows explorer. Hope this helps.
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I am building database system for a bank using Oracle 8i. Which Unix-based OSes: SCo UnixWare,Linux,Solaris should I choose ? And please tell the the reason why. I am a window man so I have no experiences in Unix OS. Thank You Very Much ! :confused::confused::confused:
My experience of banking and databases is that there is one requirement, high availability. If that's what yours is (I'd expect so), choose Solaris (as CG said, it's commercial and therefore well supported - you can get cheap SAs as well). My experience with MS SQL server on Windows is that it needs a reboot once a week (usually Sunday mornings) to clear any cobwebs away. Most dbs on solaris are stable for months. I would imagine somewhere there will be a list of 'uptimes' for oracle dbs across the different platforms. Regards Barry
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I am building database system for a bank using Oracle 8i. Which Unix-based OSes: SCo UnixWare,Linux,Solaris should I choose ? And please tell the the reason why. I am a window man so I have no experiences in Unix OS. Thank You Very Much ! :confused::confused::confused:
I would choose Solaris for high availibility, because it is very stable and Oracle runs like hell on Solaris for I386, some of my Querys ran up to 2 times faster than on the same machine under w2k Server. The other question is, which type of Hardware you are planning to use. Solaris has only a limited support for PC-Hardware, check there HCLs.
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I am building database system for a bank using Oracle 8i. Which Unix-based OSes: SCo UnixWare,Linux,Solaris should I choose ? And please tell the the reason why. I am a window man so I have no experiences in Unix OS. Thank You Very Much ! :confused::confused::confused:
Some years ago I worked with maintainance of a database with approx 70000 users. We used Sybase SQL Server running on a SUN Solaris machine and despite the fact that some of our old applications weren't stellar the db/os combo worked like a clock. It's not cheap though but in cases like that you don't care.
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Some years ago I worked with maintainance of a database with approx 70000 users. We used Sybase SQL Server running on a SUN Solaris machine and despite the fact that some of our old applications weren't stellar the db/os combo worked like a clock. It's not cheap though but in cases like that you don't care.
Speaking from the Oracle side, the choice is obvious: Solaris. Orcle is currently developed first on Solaris, then HP/UX, then ported to NT. Linux is growing, but its still a tier 2 port and gets less attention for features and bug fixes beyond critical failures. SCO... I'm not even sure Oracle even supports SCO anymore. they might but its definitely not something I would invest in for a critical system. Mark Conger Sonork:100.28396
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Solaris, because it's a commercial product and the fact that you're using an old version of Oracle means you're going to have enough problems. If you get to choose the OS, why not choose Windows ? Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002
Because banks don't want to run mission critical systems on Windows, nor any open source thingy. I did 2 projects for banks, and both were on Solaris, and both involved Oracle databases. Michel It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a very long time to say, and to listen to.
- TreeBeard