Re: Running Informix on 2 different Servers in parrallel

Neil Truby said: > "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote in message > news:41BF66EE.1090103@bloomberg.net... > >> Don't go windows, you already know UNIX, go with Linux. There are many >> excellent releases of Linux and IDS runs very well on them. You will >> not >> be able to get IDS 7.20 (which BTW is very old, out of support, and not >> even Y2K compliant). But you could build the new server, port >> everything >> there, and make that the new main box while building a new backup box, >> also running Linux. I'd recommend going to IDS 9.40UC5 or later. > > As a matter of interest, now that IBM has extended the end-of-support to > v7, > why would you recommend a user on a very old version of v7, by all > accounts > not very innovative, move to v9? Not saying your wrong but one of my > users > asked me the same question today: "Why should I move to v9 if I'm happy on > v7?". "To help pay for my holiday in The Maldives" is the actual answer, > but didn't seem politic, so I said I'd think about it. Thing is, I'd like > to sure I'm not missing anything before replying. For a user who is > comfortable with v7, does not want to use user-defined datatypes or > datablades (in my experince, 90%++ of them), and whose database is modest > enough in size that the 2G chunk limit is not a major inconvenience, what > other imperatives are there? Speed? Better diagnostics (I mean much, much, *much*, _*much*_ better diagnostics)? New features? I mean, would you advocate that someone who was happy on 7.23 stayed there if 7.31 was available? Even if you discount large chunks and extensibility, there is a load of new stuff in the 9.x code stream. -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche "I'm trying to see things your way, but I can't get my head up my ass" - JCH "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo" - Marco I went to the airport to check in and they asked what I did because I looked like a terrorist. I said I was a comedian. They said, "Say something funny then." I told them I had just graduated from flying school. -- Ahmed Ahmed sending to informix-list

Obnoxio The Chav wrote: > Speed? Better diagnostics (I mean much, much, *much*, _*much*_ better > diagnostics)? New features? I mean, would you advocate that someone who > was happy on 7.23 stayed there if 7.31 was available? Even if you discount > large chunks and extensibility, there is a load of new stuff in the 9.x > code stream. An upgrade to 7.31 from 7.23 is free, if you have support. An upgrade to 9.x from 7.x is not. Also 7.23 is not supported, 7.31 is. I agree with you on the speed and diagnostics and maybe these might be a good enough response to the "why should I /pay/ for this upgrade?" question. Ben.