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

Windows NT is a resource hog more suitable for graphics and win32 GUI apps. Linux is much faster than windows NT in console mode without x-windows. For database servers DO NOT use screensavers, windows, X-windows as they may consume certain amount of cpu. Whatever applies to database servers also applies for web-servers, email servers, newsservers where graphic is NOT needed and you need only command line console mode on terminal. Windows NT is very good replacement for window95. (Avoid windows 98) The paper at http://www.interbase.com/tech/icon/index.html says so ---> "Avoid Windows NT UNIX and Linux are better as server platforms than Windows NT. In scalability, security, stability, and especially performance, UNIX and Linux contain more mature and proven technology. In all these areas, UNIX and Linux are demonstrating their superiority over Microsoft's resource-hungry server operating system. Some of the areas in which the deficiencies of Windows NT result in performance inferiority include: NT makes poor use of memory and virtual memory NT has a poor multiprocess prioritization model NT has bugs in its process scheduling on SMP hardware NT requires much more CPU and memory resources to match UNIX/Linux performance The IT industry is realizing that the "ease of use" of Windows NT is more than offset by the high cost of ownership of that platform. Downtime, excessive hardware resource requirements, frustrating bugs, undocumented features, and mysterious performance problems continue to plague Windows NT. Someday perhaps Windows NT will be better as a server operating system, but today UNIX and Linux are clearly better. Use Windows NT for workstations, to use its strengths to best advantage. NT and UNIX/Linux computers can easily share a network. InterBase was created on UNIX platforms, and has recently released version 5.1.1 on the popular Linux operating system. The InterBase versions for Linux and SCO OpenServer are priced the same as the version for Windows NT, and run on the same Intel-based hardware. "