11 Jan
2012
11 Jan
'12
5:30 a.m.
On 1/10/12 3:19 AM, "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
Even so, for all its faults, modern versions are highly reliable. Anyone
flaming about how unreliable it is immediately *shows themselves to be an
irrational non,MS fanboy* because such opinions are not based upon current
facts; they are bigotry, based only on prejudice & badly out-of-date
hearsay.
If I am paying someone for technical advice and skills, I expect a current
skill set of all major platforms. For some things, the right tool may be
one that somebody does not personally like. They should be able to suggest
this without their emotion and preferences getting in the way.
If they can't, then they are unfit for the job.
That means current knowledge and no bigotry and hatred.
The newer version of windows are more reliable than the older versions, but
side by side at my last gig, the windows boxes were less reliable, the sun
T2Ks AND T5120s we ran were able to almost reach t5 9's of availability, the
services that ran on windows 2k8 boxes were nowhere near that, and don't get
me started on having to back up a windows update because it had issues with
a dell or compaq/hp or sun x86/x64 controller, videoboard, etc :(
When we contacted ms support about said issues (enterprise support contract)
inevitably we would eventually be told "yes, that is not compatible with x
hardware" but they were not allowed to put that in the public knowledgebase
only in the internal only KB and we only heard that after crawling up the
support ladder as high as we could go.)
The couple of times that we had solaris patches tank machines sun then
oracle owned up to the issue right away and helped us back out the patches
if we were having issues. But we were paying mondo $$ in support (to both)
With minimal pain you can install the current oracle on solaris and have a
usable DB server that will meet most needs, oracle on windows takes more
tuning to make it happy and SQL server on windows will chew up available
memory if you install the OS and sql server out of the box and don't tweak
settings.