DRM is the entertainment industry's Vietnam. The guy that loses is the one on the ground. They should know when to quit, but like my moma always said, 'there's no cure for stupid'.
I happen to work for a manufacturing ERP software company and one of my jobs is to help customers pick the OS & hardware. We run Oracle, which gives me the ability to say pick whatever OS you want as long as Oracle supports it. I agree with the repeated posts that you want to pick the software package first, but after that, if you still have an OS decision to make, I suggest you choose the one that you are most capable of managing. If you like Linux, go that way.
In my experience, Oracle in particular performs very well and reliably on Windows. My company has several hundred customers running Oracle on Windows, and I can say with confidence that Windows these days is a very stable OS when run on decent hardware. If you go cheap with the hardware (like building your own), you're a lot more likely to have problems. On the flip side, you don't have to spend $100K+ on hardware to get reliability and performance. I think it's totally impractical for a small company to be buying equipment like that, and if you buy a package that requires an iSeries, your software costs are probably going to start in the hundreds of thousands, then hit you harder with consulting costs.
If you are doing your own development it's a whole different decision process based on who's doing it, but these days, that is an enormous waste of time and energy given the ERP packages out there. From what I've seen, it's just not cost effective.
If you are in fact shopping for a replacement for your manufacturing ERP system, you might want to take a look at my company's offering, as it is fully integrated into a single database, and targeted at small to medium manufacturers.
Matt Kilbride
Professional Services, IQMS
www.iqms.com
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DRM is the entertainment industry's Vietnam. The guy that loses is the one on the ground. They should know when to quit, but like my moma always said, 'there's no cure for stupid'.
I happen to work for a manufacturing ERP software company and one of my jobs is to help customers pick the OS & hardware. We run Oracle, which gives me the ability to say pick whatever OS you want as long as Oracle supports it. I agree with the repeated posts that you want to pick the software package first, but after that, if you still have an OS decision to make, I suggest you choose the one that you are most capable of managing. If you like Linux, go that way.
In my experience, Oracle in particular performs very well and reliably on Windows. My company has several hundred customers running Oracle on Windows, and I can say with confidence that Windows these days is a very stable OS when run on decent hardware. If you go cheap with the hardware (like building your own), you're a lot more likely to have problems. On the flip side, you don't have to spend $100K+ on hardware to get reliability and performance. I think it's totally impractical for a small company to be buying equipment like that, and if you buy a package that requires an iSeries, your software costs are probably going to start in the hundreds of thousands, then hit you harder with consulting costs.
If you are doing your own development it's a whole different decision process based on who's doing it, but these days, that is an enormous waste of time and energy given the ERP packages out there. From what I've seen, it's just not cost effective.
If you are in fact shopping for a replacement for your manufacturing ERP system, you might want to take a look at my company's offering, as it is fully integrated into a single database, and targeted at small to medium manufacturers.
Matt Kilbride
Professional Services, IQMS
www.iqms.com