Oracle for Windows XP with INTEL inside 2004-09-27 - By Niall Litchfield
On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 19:34:24 -0700, Jared Still <jkstill@(protected) > wrote:
> I may have been thinking of Remote Terminal
> Services, which I believe requires the listener
> to be started, as you are not actually on the console
> when you connect to the database.
That used to be true, but is no longer true from 9i.
> As someone else already stated, it is the 'wrong ' OS.
>
> Windows complicates everything it touches.
I disagree with the first statement quite strongly, and with the
second statement a bit. Windows does have a number of technical
limitations that inhibit its scalability for more than (say) 150/200
concurrent sessions or utilising more than 1.7gb or so of RAM per
instance. (yes I know about AWE - its horrible). However if you don 't
need to exceed the technical limits of the platform there are any
number of situations when it is the 'right ' OS. For example
When you don 't have *nix skills in-house and do have windows skills.
When you have a windows only infrastructure.
I 'm sure that Mogens would argue that the only technically 'right ' OS
is VMS. He may well be correct, but infrastructure doesn 't get
implemented in a vacuum and making technology decisions on purely
technical factors is probably worse than making technical decisions on
purely business factors.
On the windows over complicates things argument, I suspect that also
depends where you are coming from. Configuring shared memory,
adjusting kernel parameters etc seems to your average Windows admin to
'overly-complicate ' things - cos you don 't have to - or can 't - do
them on that platform.
So windows is more limited yes, that doesn 't mean that it is 'wrong ' .
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com
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