Re: What INFORMIX product shall I use?

In <5ivg91$nv0@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu> zeljan@laus.hr (Zeljan Silje) writes: >Hi, >my company ordered RS/6000 (AIX4.2) with 160M RAM, with 2 disks (3 in >near future), single CPU. I will use it for application development >(about 20 or more database users). >Shall I use INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server(7.2?) or INFORMIX-OnLine >Workgroup Server(7,2?) on mentioned machine? >What are advantages and disadvantages for both servers? From what I know, there's only a few differences between the two products. Primarily, the parallel query option is missing in OWS, as is the so-called 'enterprise' data replication. Seeing as how you've only the one machine (no need for data replication of any sort) and it's only a single CPU jobbie (no multi-threaded querys possible), you'd save yourself a buck by using OWS. As an aside, and depending on precisely what your application is intended for, and the volume of data travelling through it, have you considered SE. Its a low maintenance, low cost engine that gives a good account of itself in the bottom end of the DB market. Might even save you two bucks :) Bryan Tonnet batonnet@zeta.org.au