Re: Informix on NT

Rob LaLonde (76105.2276@CompuServe.COM) wrote: : Can anyone share some experience with Informix on NT? Is the : overall quality equal to UNIX versions? Performance? Ease of : use? Same administration tools? Free of major bugs? etc. Has : anyone evaluated the NT and UNIX versions side by side? We are : currently wrestling with doing this vs. assuming one is very : similar to the other in features, performance, bugs, etc. : Many thanks in advance. : -- : Rob LaLonde : disclaimer@words.are.mine.alone Rob, I've begun some benchmarks on the Stratus RADIO NT Cluster of 7.13 NT versus 7.10 on UnixWare on the same platform. Generally, I'm finding that the NT version performs on par with the Unix version. The 7.13 is **almost exactly** the same as the Unix version, down to the old familiar character level interface. There is a major difference in that the NT version uses the NT register rather than a SQLHOSTS file, but it begins to make sense after a while (may Kernigan and Ritchie strike me speechless!) Dbaccess uses the Windows notepad for an editor, and I've yet to make it work correctly, so I'm stuck with the awful built-in editor of dbaccess, but I really haven't researched it. The CD install is REALLY REALLY REALLY nice on the NT version. The NT uses ntfs filesystem files, no raw disks, but it seems to run quickly enough, and it's nice to be able to see the files in the filesystem. All-in-all, I'm pretty impressed. Joe -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Lumbley(jlumbley@netcom.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------