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 Posted by DA Morgan on 04/13/06 21:37 
Tony Rogerson wrote: 
>> One factor we routinely see with Oracle is that one can take a single 
>> piece of hardware. First load Oracle on Windows XP SP2 on it and run a 
>> load. Then format the hard disk and perform the exact same test using 
>> RedHat Linux. The difference in scalability and performance is hard to 
>> miss. 
>  
> So you are comparing an OS mean't for the desktop (XP) against an OS mean't  
> for a server environment. 
 
No. When and where did I say "Desktop"? You said it I didn't. 
 
But the same test has been run against all 32bit Windows Server 
implementations with the same result. Hope that clarifies it. 
 
> Like I say, your bias of anti-MS tunnels your judgement. 
 
I use a lot of MS products. Just not SQL Server for line-of-business 
apps. That hardly qualifies as an anti-MS bias. You just don't seem to 
like the message that there are somethings where Windows and/or SQL 
Server are not the best tool for the job. That is not my bias. That is 
the result of benchmarking. 
 
> If I get some free time I'll try a comparison between linux and windows 2003  
> r2 server edition which is a more comparable test. 
 
Given your knowledge of Oracle and ability to set it up properly I think 
one can pretty much assume the result is predetermined. 
--  
Daniel A. Morgan 
http://www.psoug.org 
damorgan@x.washington.edu 
(replace x with u to respond)
 
  
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