differences between Oracle 8 on NT and on Solaris

[hilbrink]

Does anybody know what de difference between Oracle8 on Windows NT and Oracle8 on Solaris are or where I can find information about this subject?

Is the Enterprise Manager available on Solaris?
Can I import data on Solaris from a file I exported on Windows?

Thanx in advance!

 

[DBAwhosaysNIE]

the practical differences are scalability, uptime (I have one that's at 412 days & still plowing along) and price (RISC licenses and SPARC hardware are much more than Intel)

some technical differences are that it's much easier/safer to run multiple versions (ORACLE_HOMEs) on Unix (any flavor) than NT (no registry/shared dlls in Unix) if you need to test patches/upgrade. creating new instance(s) is more complicated in NT (adding registry entries in NT vs. export ORACLE_SID=<new instance> in Unix). also, background processes are not actually separate processes in NT (threads of OracleService<SID> service) like they are in Unix (although that's more techie trivia).

Finally, OMS is available on Solaris and OEM console can be run from an xwin compatible terminal (Linux or xwin emmulator for M$) and you can export/import between NT and Solaris (make sure you're bin when FTPing).