[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by tamilselvan [/i]
[B]The question is not technology but how much money ($$$$$)can the organization spend for maintaining 50 GB DB in NT or in UNIX box. Then take up a decision.
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The question should be how much time and money can the orginization lose when the database is down. All of a sudden, an extra $20K spent on a reliable server/OS is spare change.
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In fact I had more problems with SUN machines than any other machines I used in my life.
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You must have had a bad batch or something. I have worked with Oracle on a wide variety of platforms (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, NT, Solaris x86, Netware). Sun/Solaris is, by far, the most reliable plaform for running Oracle databases. Out of those I have worked with, NT & Netware tie for the worst.

In an environment with 20 users and 50G of data, you might be able to get along with NT. If you schedule reboots every 7-10 days and put the data on a reliable RAID system you might be up aproximately 90% of the time. When you are talking about 300 users and 3TB of data that has to be accessed 24x7, it's a whole different story.