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Oracle and XP or 2000 Server?

911paramedic

911paramedic

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This can be done can't it? I was looking at the oracle site and it seems like it.

My sis called and she has an "expert" coming out to check her system. (three larger servers, one oracle, for 3 employees)

The thing is, the program that runs on oracle is very specific to her needs, biomedical injection molding stuff. My question is can you run oracle on a windows system, or am I crazy?

Thanks in advance.

(funniest thing is they all use AOL for company mail...:Q )
 
I thought so, thanks. Their last IT manager said otherwise, so they have WAAAYYYY too much hardware now. (for the last three years)

They fired her a few months ago and my sis keeps calling me with questions, I just don't want them to get taken again.

Thanks a lot for the quick answer Nothinman. 😀
 
I wouldn't recommend it though, I personally wouldn't trust something like that to Windows. Performance, data-integrity or stability wise.
 
They charge like $6 grand for it, do you run it on it's own server then? If she can get down to a couple servers that would help I imagine.

They used to be a much larger comany, but now have two offices in CA, one in NOcal and one in SOcal. There are only 3 in one office, and about 15 in the manufacturing office in SOcal. Why they need so much equipment is beyond me, thats why I am a paramedic and left the IT to the professionals. (even though I took all the mcse courses...)
 
Oracle has run on NT for years.

For a long time, it was the top-selling DBMS on that platform, but I figure MS SQL Server has assumed that crown through licensing bundles of some type.
 
They charge like $6 grand for it, do you run it on it's own server then? If she can get down to a couple servers that would help I imagine.
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I don't know what they currently have but if they already have the hardware for it why does it matter? I would reuse as much of the hardware and software as possible, if you already have Oracle and NT Server licenses just use them unless you have someone to sell them to. If the software is only supported on Oracle I would probably go for Oracle on Linux because I know Linux well, if it's not tied to Oracle I would look at PostgreSQL or even MySQL because both are free. But no matter what software is used I would definately make the Oracle server seperate from everything else.

Basically she needs to find out what is absolutely necessary and what they already have then go from there.
 
hehe, Microsoft may have a monopoly over desktops and MSSQL maybe the most used database on windows servers, but most serious server stuff doesn't happen with MS.

Oracle is #1 right now in terms of # of sales with close to 40% of market share. They have about a 60% of the market share with Unix-OS-based databases.

IBM gets more money but they sell 32% of the databases.

Microsoft is 3rd with about 11% or the market share.


edit (although your right, oracle was edged out on NT-based stuff by mssql.)
 
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