Re: Informix on NT platform - Impact of 100 to 400+ Users

Reiner Kunz wrote: > > Hi Nils, > > you shouldn't say this. UNIX is such a catastrophy for administering. You > need at least 4-6 monts to get basic understanding of UNIX interna and > administration. Not to speak from installing the stuff. I'm working with a > HP9000 and my admins will need 5 (!) days and three (!) consultants and a > whole new unix machine just to get this damned thing from HP-UX 10.10 to > 10.20. Full installation is required again when we'll get HP-UX 10.30. With > NT installation or upgrading is just a snap. Absolut no problems. And no 3 > consultants for a week, drinking my coffee ;-) > > Also, getting ODBC up and running is also a catastrophy. I didn't find > *any* consultant capable or willing of installing I-CLI, Sequelink or > OpenLink drivers. They're all 4GL centric. Maybe, because 4GL didn't change > much for the last 7 years. So, they didn't have to learn something new. I > forgot: My consultants told just to drop this Windows Development rubbish > and to switch to Intranet solutions with Java and JDBC. Oh, my god! > > I still think, after fiddling around with all major OS brands that NT is a > serious alternative to the whole bunch of multiuser systems like UNIX. And > it's much cheaper, too. > > cu Reiner ups, seems to me like you would have to change your administration staff.... alex