unix and windows

[Peterb7]

Ok, nows here's a question. For years our organisation has had sun servers running solaris for our data bases (oracle) (around 100 - 200 users a server max) Our applications servers have been windows (now going to 2003. The argument has always been sun / solaris is more stable and justified the cost. However we know we can run oracle happily on windows. There the extra costs in training staff in the unix arts and additional software we need to do things the windows bods can do.

So the question is, does the cost incurred with Solaris if we upgrade (inc. costs of new sun hardware + training etc) stack up? Or do we move our oracle databases to intel servers and windows?

We are being asked to justify the cost of personnel and hardware, for an organisation our size (500 users with as i say 200 users on one unix box and 50 - 70 on the other databases) Can we?

Peterb7

 

[itsp1965]

Most folks who are comtemplating migration from Unix usually go the Linux route. We have had Oracle dbs running on both HP-UX and Windows and Windows is getting better at running a prod environment. If you already *nix/Oracle expertise, your migration to Linux would be more seamless. Hope this helps.