Running ORACLE on windows

Question

Is there any particular benefit to running and ORACLE server on Windows 2003/2008 Server as opposed to, say, 64-bit XP ?
Is one likely to be far better at supporting a web application, for instance ?
Regards in advance
johnnied

Answer 1

johnnie d wrote:
Is there any particular benefit to running and ORACLE server on Windows 2003/2008 Server as opposed to, say, 64-bit XP ?
Is one likely to be far better at supporting a web application, for instance ?WIndows XP Home, Windows XP Pro and WIndows Server 2003 family use the same OS kernel.
There are a number of configuration parameters that place limits on some aspects of the system for different 'editions' - some of which can be overridden by changing the registry, some are compiled into the kernel, and some are simply because the supporting software has or has not been delivered.
For example, Windows XP (Home and Pro) are not designed to be servers and will refuse incoming connections to the HTTP server once a maximum concurrent limit is reached. See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;314882 to confirm (XP Home only allows 5 connections, XP Pro only allows 10 connections at a time.)
(Ditto, Vista and Windows7 vs Server 2008 and Server 2008R2 respectively.)