Re: NT server, pro/con

>> The only thing I've heard bad about NT is the fact that it does hit a roof >> with large databases and a large number of concurrent users. Also it >> scales only up to two INTEL CPUs in reality - some guy I worked with had >> NT 3.5 on a two PENTIUM box and maxed it out, he then ran the same ORacle >> database on a four Pentium box and it was 10% faster than the 2 Pentium >> box. They were looking into Solaris and UnixWare last I heard. > >I have heard that the NT distribution that ships from MS has a HAL >(Hardware Abstraction Layer) that can only use 2 procs. If you do >obtain a multi-proc (> 2) box, then you have to make sure that the >vendor provides a HAL for the system. I believe that NT off the shelf, will only handle 2 processors. You need to obtain licences from Microsoft for the additional processors. Also, a test with 30 processors was reported by Info World which should that it was a fairly linear scale. Every test I have seen shows that NT handles loads better than any other system on the Intel platform. Later.....Bill