Seen this week on a mailing list elsewhere:

Question:
> >We're looking for ideas on the preference for the oracle application
> >server platform, unix -vs- NT. We're going to be installing
> XXXXX Web this spring. Our database server is a Dec Alpha/Unix box.
> >We're looking at Dec Unix, Sun, and NT. We don't do a lot with NT
> server
> >here yet. I guess I'd like to hear what people are using and why.

Answer:
>
> We switched from a Compaq Proliant with NT 4.0 to a Sun UltraSparc 60
> with Solaris 2.6 last fall. The NT server would crash daily during
> periods of high activity. In contrast, the Solaris box has crashed 3
> times since last November.

To answer the above question, the Oracle Application [Web] Server,
unfortunately, isn't available for MPE, so we're using a HP 9000/K570-400 as
both Oracle DB server and Web server (it has crashed once since Nov. 99,
although the web server had to be restarted a couple more times than that).

Meanwhile, CSY wonders if the world needs a HP 3000 with a SSL web server?!?

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