Best OS for Oracle Database Server Redhat Ent. Linux AS4 or MS Windows 2003

hi,
if i have to choose operating system for our oracle database production server, what should i choose Linux as 4 or windows 2003. we have professional for both.
any other OS could be consider ???
Prabhaker Kumar

Hi Paul,
As I said above, Windows/Unix is not only the tech team choice.
Also, by estimation, nearly 60-70% of our clients have databases under Windows. I have to say that are not big databases (less than 100Gb), and traffic is not very high (till 1000 connections per days). But when the work become more intensive, and more data and security required, the databases are under Unix/Linux.
But in small business company, Unix/Linux afraid again, maybe due to the higher cost (install/maintenance server).
If my preference go for Unix/Linux, I use Oracle under Windows at my home (because I share my Pc with my wife and my daughter) and on my laptop for test, and that works well ;-)
Nicolas.

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