Re: Informix on NT vs Unix

Nils Myklebust wrote: > > So are Sequent, NCR, Unisys and others. It doesn't make them PC type > servers with their price advantage and good performance. > > I happen to think that one should immediately forget Data General and > several other small (and some larger) manufacturers. They would all > have been fine had there been one standard Unix for Intel based > processors that Informix could port to. As long as there is not, > Informix will have lots of problems (costs) porting to all the small > mee too manufacturers in the Unix world that can't possibly contribute > anything realy essential to the market. (According to the TPC-C > results I have seen the price/performance isn't even very good.) If you refer to the tests done by Transaction Processing Performance Council (http://www.tpc.org) I agree about the price/performance aspect. However, it is quite clear that the hardware used in these tests is very much overkill. In the test with SQL-Server and HP LH Pro (2*PPro) (http://www.tpc.org/results/individual_results/HP/hplhes.pdf) they used 65(!) harddisks, 4 RAID controllers and 1 GB RAM. This is not a very realistic system. If all this power is necessary it is probably wiser to use a DEC-Alpha system, or something alike. I'm in the middle of setting up an Infomix server based on the HP LH Pro and I calculate with a cost of about $8/TPC-C. Yours /Nils Paulsson