dmcintee@netxcom.UUCP (Dave McIntee) (02/07/89)
Given a choice of any hardware/os platform, what's the best. (well, not any platform! These are qualifications: o Support for MS-DOS/Macintosh PCs in a network o Hardware cost not to exceed $500,000) -- Dave McIntee NetExpress Communications, Inc. Phone: (703)749-2380 1953 Gallows Road, Suite 300 uunet!netxcom!dmcintee Vienna, VA 22180
mh@wlbr.EATON.COM (Mike Hoegeman) (02/09/89)
In article <1146@netxcom.UUCP> dmcintee@netxcom.UUCP (Dave McIntee) writes: > >Given a choice of any hardware/os platform, what's the best. > >(well, not any platform! These are qualifications: > > o Support for MS-DOS/Macintosh PCs in a network > > o Hardware cost not to exceed $500,000) we use oracle on vms vax 8350's and on sun 3/160's. we've found that the networking works MUCH better on the suns than it does on the vax. the client machines that we use are also sun 3/160's. the sun seems to be just a little bit faster when no networking is involved. we had ultrix oracle up for a couple of day's on the 8350 and from what I saw , it fared much better networking-wise than the vms version. Excluding networking, the vms and ultrix versions performed about the same. I'd go for a unix type of oracle server machine if you are doing any kind of networking. our vms oracle server is pretty poor when it comes to doing stuff over the network. (p.s. by networking , i mean TCP/IP) -mike