Re: Informix NT vs Unix

On Sat, 7 Mar 1998 15:19:49 GMT, jlumbley@netcom.com (Joe Lumbley) wrote: > One of the reasons I like NT is that I don't want >a lot of other applications, especially other databases, running on my >Informix server. This seems to be a little easier to stipulate with an >NT server than with a UNIX server, from a political standpoint, with IS >departments. They **expect** a big UNIX box to be multi-purpose, but >not necessarily an NT box. If the Unix box is the same one you would otherwise run NT on this shouldn't be much of an issue. I do also think that whatever you do one important point is just this, not to run anything but the database and it's applications on the same server if at all possible. For many purposes this is no longer a problem with the current hardware prices. Of course if you stipulate that Unix have to mean HP, IBM or Sun RISC you may be out of luck. But why do that when you can get the same performance at a much lower cost from a PC server up to a size that keeps increasing? Nils Myklebust NM Data AS Norway E-mail: Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com FAQ at: Primary with ODBC info: http://www.smooth1.demon.co.uk Official site http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html