Re:Switching from Solaris, not Windows (Score 1)

Wrong. Solaris and Win32 were the base platforms for the Oracle database starting roughly in 1999 (maybe even 1998... it's been a while). There was a lot of development done on Windows, because compared to an UltraSparc PCs were three times faster and cost a third as much, and the portability layer insulated you very well from the differences between unix and Win32, thank you very much. There was a lot of hue and cry about everyone not being allowed to upgrade from Office 97 to Office 2000, but a lot of work got done on Windows.