Re: Eperiences with Online under NT 4

On 17 Feb 97 at 23:29, Chris Drauch wrote: > Markus Wette wrote > > > >I would like to know about experiences (good or bad) > >with Informix-Online under Windows NT 4. > > I bet, Billy will come up soon :-) Yes, it seems to work. No, it Well, I wasn't going to say anything, but since you provoked me... :-) > isn't the best plattform for database servers (the real ones). > Installation is a bit tricky, don't try to initially allocate > dbspaces without mirrors (f***ing GUI setup s**t) - or maybe the > wrong simsalabim.dll is guilty ... :-) I think a lot of the problem is the NT hype: "a better UNIX than UNIX". Well, we can argue the merits of that (and I certainly would), but it's definitely not as consistent as UNIX. > [flaming set off] Why? > Take a real operating system, don't poke around with a *little* more > stable desktop operating system. Amen. People say "well I can get up to 90% of the performance of UNIX with the same config on NT and it costs a lot less". Wait until you have to waste 40 man hours finding some piddly little fault. Pretty soon you're way past the cost of rather buying UNIX. If you install it and it works first time, you're away and that's great; but judging by the posts I've seen, if it goes wrong, chuck it out and use UNIX. -- Ciao, Billy "...nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat..."