Re: SCO not recommended for high number of users.

jparker@hpbs3645.boi.hp.com (Jack Parker) wrote: Jack, the following isn't written so much to disagrea with you as to give others in the group some new information. :My apologies for implying that SCO was not an OS of choice for large :numbers of users. Next time I have (only) 100 users to support I'll consider :it. :-) Yes? On a HP PC server perhaps. Oracle and MS get TPC/C results in the area of 5000 tpm/c at less than $150/tpm/c using Unix and Windows NT. Informix wouldn't tell us the results yet, but will come with tpc/c results for Windows NT and I would expect them to match or beat these numbers. As far as I know that requires much more than 100 users. I'd expect to see several thousand users well supported, including the necessary hardware and software vendor backup and support perhaps next year. Then we will also start seeing implementations of Informix XPS on PC-type platforms. My point here is that the current numbers *seem* to show better results - substantially better - than most medium sized risc based Unix servers, including the K-series from HP. Currently it's simply an interesting observation. It may very soon grow into something much more than that. For the benefit of us users. And Informix will be there to compete, and the way it looks now, compete very effectively. :... other interesting stuff gone with the delete key ... :As for Informixs' presence in the small arena. They appear to want to treat :PCs as clients - understandable given the pathetic characteristics of the :common OS for these machines. (NewEra came out for that market first). OTOH :with NT I hear a lot of talk on porting Online to that OS - not necessarily :a PC OS I know, but not exactly running the Crays of the world yet. Yet may be the key word here, although you seem to forget the availability of high performance Unix for PC servers which is also a very interesting option. : Finally :if you consider that Informix has historically had an offering at the low-end :level - one that works so well who would want to mess with it and consider :that if anything Informix needs to be working at the top end where the money :is. You may remember that until Phil took over (not necessarily that he was :responsible for the change - just that it appears to have started about that :time and he may in fact have had a great deal to do with it) Informix did :not have a real presence at the top end. Agreed that there was nothing more right to do for Informix than what they have done to gain a real presence at the top end. The only point now is they shouldn't forget the low end "where the money is" :-) There is money in the high end as well as the low end - probably equally much so. There is no conflict, and Informix is again doing the right through their new OnLine Workgroup Server initiativ on Windows NT as well as "small" Unix machines. SE will *slowly* dissapear, but OWS will take over and become as easy to administer, much more powerfull, and easy to upgrade. Great. :Aaaarghh - still trying to get my brain to work right - sorry for the :meandering post. :cheers :j. :_____________________________________________________________________________ :Jack Parker - Hewlett Packard, DMD/IS Boise, Idaho, USA :jparker@hpbs3645.boi.hp.com <--- new address :_____________________________________________________________________________ : If anything can go wrong, fix it. To hell with Murphy. :_____________________________________________________________________________ : Any opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employers. :_____________________________________________________________________________ Nils.Myklebust@ccmail.telemax.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company