Re: More bang for the buck? Linux Vs Windows?
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