Scott:
I will say one thing. You need to seriously harden your ARS server on Windows if it is even close to being exposed to the Internet. I would suggest staying with UNIX as it is possibly the most rock solid operating system out there (who said reboot, what's that?)
I would not trust Microsoft Server for a mission critical process.
BTW, we had a failure of a mirrored hard drive. This is the first major problem that we've had with these systems and it is due to poor power (we switched companies providing power and this is under investigation.) Our development systems were not protected by a small UPS (the entire building is supposed to be, but we recently discovered it was not due to the load) and now is. Other that this situation, our systems only get rebooted when there is a critical security patch that comes out from Sun.
BTW, one of our major taskings just switched from Microsoft Server 2003 to Sun Solaris 10.
The question becomes "Why Not Microsoft" to "Why Microsoft"?
James McKenzie
L-3 GSI
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From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Scott Neeb
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 2:39 PM
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Subject: Advantages/Disadvantages between platforms running Remedy
We have an initiative at my work entitled "Why Not Microsoft?". We're supposed to ask ourselves at critical application milestones if we should contemplate moving Remedy to the Windows platform. We currently reside on UNIX with an Oracle database, so Remedy is always being evaluated as a candidate for the move. They asked me today if there are any advantages/disadvantages between running Remedy on UNIX/Oracle as compared to Windows/SQL Server. I haven't seen any documentation or user comments anywhere on the internet, so I was wondering if any of you have any prior experience with this type of move, and if you've seen any advantages or disadvantages to this type of move as it relates to the ARSystem. Thanks in advance.
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