Forum Post: RE: What OS do we choose?

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We used to support windows and linux as database/appserver. We stopped supporting linux, because it remained a black box to us. IMHO, if you don’t have in house expertise on the OS you use, you won’t be able to bring it to the best performance. For us running the database on linux didn’t bring a performance boost for the end-user experience. Running it on windows has proven for us to be rock solid. But we have a .net webbased frontend talking to appserver which are connected to the database on shared memory. It will depend on your application. We schedule a reboot two or three times a year for our database servers. Front-end webservers connected to the internet have to be rebooted a bit more often. Other than that the application is available 24/7. So no problems with that on windows. The only issues we had when we started supporting linux, was the proper escaped use of backslashes in the code ( ~\ ), and a few external programs we initiated with os-command. But I expect you won’t have problems going from linux to windows. Be alert on the difference with linebreaks ( chr(10) vs chr(10) + chr(13) ). Regards, Alexander Van: akjump [mailto:bounce-akjump@community.progress.com] Verzonden: vrijdag 5 september 2014 12:26 Aan: TU.OE.RDB MS@community.progress.com Onderwerp: [Technical Users - OE RDBMS] What OS do we choose? What OS do we choose? Thread created by akjump Hi All, We are at a crossroad at our company, and I need your help and advice! We are currently running OE 10.1C on a SCO UnixServer v6, with AppServers, and clients running on Windows Server 2008 RDS. We are in the planning stages of upgrading, probably directly to OE 11.4, yeah, I hear you all say! But upgrading, isn't quite that simple, as of course SCO was obsoleted from 10.2B onwards, so any upgrade from 10.1C requires us to change our OS also. Our initial thoughts were to go to RedHat. Why not? It is cheap, stable, performs well, and is similar in structure to Unix...so 'everyone' tells me. But our biggest problem, is that we have no Linux experts within the company already, so there would need to be training and learning involved, which means the time to upgrade is increased greatly. Another possiblity is to stick to Unix, but change to AIX or HP/UX, but why would you when Linux is just as strong, and a fraction of the cost? So that only leaves Windows as the other available platform? We already have very good knowledge of Windows, and have just gone through a process of moving from Windows 2003 TSE Servers to the newer Windows 2008 RDS Servers for the client side. But isn't Windows performance worse than Linux/Unix? Or is this a myth? If so, are the ways to overcome this? Is Windows 2008 Server a stable environment? Unless you choose to reboot a Linux/Unix server, there isn't really a need to do so. Windows? Could this stay working 24/7 if required? If anyone has already made the move from Linux/Unix to Windows already, did you find any issues? Did you overcome them, and how? All "nice" comments welcome in helping us decide which future path we should take. Thanks, Andy Stop receiving emails on this subject. Flag this post as spam/abuse.

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