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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (10306)	8/26/1998 2:53:00 PM
From: paul	Read Replies (1) of 74651

no its not. Oracle 8 on Windows NT is priced at $295 a seat list - a similar price to SQLServer. Oracle 8 also runs on over 80 platforms such as linux which is free to a Sun E250 which starts at under $10,000. With Sun you can start with a e250 and scale up to a e10,000 - a 64 cpu machine that can be clustered with up to 4 machines (total of 256 processors). with NT - hmmm...where can you go today? Managing a distributed NT network is a nightmare with none of the RAS, uptime or manageability of Unix. listen - as far as i know running sqlserver is fine on a single machine - a small business or file and print application or replacing Novell - remember - Oracle on Netware was a hot thing at one point. It had nothing to do with replacing unix or mainframes. I have offered many proposals to customers consolidating multiple NT application servers onto a single unix server saving not only in upfront hardware costs but sys administration and system uptime as well. All of Compaq's industry leading TPC benchmark's are on SCO Unix although they are hidden in the fine text - they are not run on Windows NT.

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