Avoid Windows NT for database server - says the White paper!!

["Shulzhenko Vasyl" <vasilis@softline.kiev.ua>]

>There is probably an element of truth in this though.
>I have built a carefully matched pair of databases on 
>similar sized NT and (small) HP-UX boxes, and compared
>the resource cost for identical database engine activities.
>
>The HP-UX box used about one-third of the resources of
>the NT to do the same work.  Then again I put together the
>NT kit for about one-third of the price of the HP.
>
>At a small enough scale it doesn't necessarily matter
>that NT is a hog.
>
>Jonathan Lewis
>
>
>Foxtrot <chef@roadkillcafe.com> wrote in article
><366726de.4402875@keeks.ioc.ee>...
>> On Tue, 01 Dec 1998 21:17:35 +0000, Dev_Al <alavoor@yahoo.com>
>wrote:
>> 
>> >Windows NT is a resource hog more suitable for graphics and win32
>GUI
>> >apps.
>> >
>> >The paper at http://www.interbase.com/tech/icon/index.html says so
>--->
>> 
>> Oh, it's the Interbase doom mongers again. Do not make the mistake
>of
>> taking them seriously.
>> 
>>