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.
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