Re: Informix 5 vs. 7

Ofer Inbar wrote: > and am wondering if it makes any sense for a brand new installation to > go with 5 instead of 7? What are some of the advantages of getting 7? Advantages: Better supported by 3rd-party tools, like backup programs etc. Built-in networking Very tunable (cuts both ways - see below) Disadvantages: Very tunable - lots of parameters to get lost in More expensive (?) than 5.x We are sticking with our version 5 of Online (presently at 5.07) be- cause we'd have to recompile lots of frontend code (4GL, ESQL/C) with their respective new versions if we switched to Online 7.x. It's not worth the hassle IMHO, since we were told on several occasions by Informix reps. that on a single processor machine we wouldn't see any noticeable performance benefits. If I had to start completely anew, I'd probably go with version 7.22. Regards, Richard -- +--------------------------+------------------------------------------+ | Dr. Richard Spitz | INTERNET: spitz@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de | | EDV-Gruppe Anaesthesie | Tel : +49-89-7095-3413 | | Klinikum Grosshadern | FAX : +49-89-7095-8886 | | 81366 Munich, Germany | | +--------------------------+------------------------------------------+