Re: More bang for the buck? Linux Vs Windows?
The target OS version would be Windows Sever 2003. I don't have a large amount of experience on Windows from an IDS perspective but I do understand the difficult administraion perspective. On that note Unix was difficult for me at first but once I learned my way around it turned out to be okay. I would assume Windows would be the same, once you got used to DBA'ing on it, it would turn out to be okay. It's all in what you know. --- Jack Parker <vze2qjg5@verizon.net> wrote: > > It's difficult to administer anything under Windoze > - you can't get to > anything easily and it changes so drastically from > version to version. I > know it's unfair to compare Windoze 286 throug XP > with Unix SVR2 - Linux, > but have you tried to work with XP lately? What > changes did you have to > make to where you expected to find things just in > moving from ME? What a > mess of bloatware. The interface may be more > intuitive, but it's a royal > pain in the *ss to get underneath it and fix > anything - espescially with any > hope of it staying fixed. I suggest you benchmark, > but I bet you will find > that the same code runs faster under Linux as it > does under Windoze, on the > same hardware. H*ck I'll try it here in a day or > so. > > cheers > j. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "DL Redden" <redden96@yahoo.com> > To: "Informix List" <informix-list@iiug.org> > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 6:00 PM > Subject: More bang for the buck? Linux Vs Windows? > > > > The powers that be in our IT organization have > decided > > that we should stop running Informix on HP-UX and > > start running it on Win-tel servers for cost > reasons. > > I'm advocating Linux on Intel instead of Windows > but I > > need to convince the gods that it will be cheaper > than > > a Win-tel solution of the same caliber. > > > > Assume that I had two identical machines, one > loaded > > with Windows and one with Linux, and installed > > Informix on them. > > > > Which server would I get the most performance out > of? > > Ease of administration? > > Lowest TCO? > > > > Assuming that the Linux solution is going to > perform > > better how much more machine would it take for a > > windows solution to compete. > > > > I've done some research on Google but I wanted to > hear > > what this communities opinions were? I'm sure that > > there will be an overwhelming response for Linux > so > > I'm interested in testimonials, please. > > > > I want to take an unbiased recommendation to my > bosses > > so if there are any Windows advocates out there > please > > speak up. > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing > online. > > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > > sending to informix-list > > > sending to informix-list __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html sending to informix-list