Re: Informix on SUN vs HP

Call me prejudiced, but I'd take a Sun box anytime over an HP box. HP needs to weed out their bugs on their new 64 bit HP-UX 11.x, their multithreading works like a dog, there're more, but these are definite show stoppers. Solaris has great thread library and the Ultra 3500 we have works great. The only thing Solaris doesn't have that HP-UX has is SAM, comes in handy sometimes. Take a look at SGI's Origin and O2, I was impressed with the Origin with 8 CPU's and 2GB memory. Also, Digital Unix is another good environment. Good luck, Arun joanned@seanet.com wrote: > Hello Informix World, > > I would like to hear your comments if you are using Solaris/Sun and/or > HP/HP-UX in your shop, and what your satisfaction has been with these > hardware and Operating systems. > > We have an OLTP application with a relatively small number of users > (approx 35), and a 6 gig database running under SCO today, and we > plan to mirgate to either a SUN or HP solution. We plan to grow > quickly over the next several years with the number of users approaching > 200. We are considering an HP K360 or a SUN E4000. The HP K box does > not appear to scale over 6 CPUs, but HP is convinced the performance is > competetive with Sun. > > I'm very interested in hearing about OS tools/admin tools, > the ease of allocation of disk space under RAID, and the stability > of the Informix/OS combination. > > Thanks for your comments .... > > J. Dority