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Posted by Greg D. Moore \(Strider\) on 04/14/06 05:19
"DA Morgan" <damorgan@psoug.org> wrote in message
news:1144953446.98074@yasure.drizzle.com...
> 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.
Actually you did by the very fact you said XP. That's an OS intended for
desktop use and as such is tuned very differently than Server 2003.
>
> But the same test has been run against all 32bit Windows Server
> implementations with the same result. Hope that clarifies it.
What about 64 bit versions out of curiosity.
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan
> http://www.psoug.org
> damorgan@x.washington.edu
> (replace x with u to respond)
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