NT 4.xx with NT Service or Novell 4.xx with NLM which to choose (Networking Products)
At 06 JAN 2000 03:17:21AM Kyle Amadio -Oryx Technology Pty Ltd wrote:
If you had a choice of operating systems on the following hardware and with the usage profile, which operating system would you choose, for optimum performance and reliability:
Dual CPU Pentium III 550 mhz, 512MB ram very fast SCSI drive arrays
60 users, 20 in a 24 X 7 call centre operation, VERY large tables,in-excess of 300,000 to 500,000 rows in history tables
And there are existing Novell Servers running the NLM. (One option is to phase out the NLM based databases).
Would we choose the NT Service on NT or NLM on the Novell Servers?
At 06 JAN 2000 06:16AM Steve Smith wrote:
The Novell server will stay up for hundreds of days at a time.
The NT server will stay up for a couple of weeks (max) before needing a reboot.
Novell is easier to manage and configure.
NT is more popular.
Take your pick.
Steve
steve@state-of-the-art.com.au
At 06 JAN 2000 08:38AM [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com]The Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:
Choose NT if there are specific reasons for wanting the benefits it brings - being an application server rather than a file server etc. If you just want to duplicate the features of Novell stay with Novell it is way more field tested and way faster.
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At 20 JAN 2000 06:18PM Dan Reese wrote:
We run benchmarks on every installation and have a number of both Novell and NT sites. Expect Novell to outperform NT on similar hardware by a factor of 4. This varies slightly, but not much. Most of our sites that have switched from Novell to NT don't notice a performance difference, but they always go to new hardware while making the switch. For example, they might go from a 133 mhz Novell server to a 450 or 550 mhz NT server and they don't notice any difference.
By the way, Microsoft has already announced a schedule for discontinued support of NT. You might want to wait six months or a year and see if Windows 2000 is any better than NT. If you switch to NT now, you will need to switch to Win2000 soon thereafter.