Re: upgrade help

Posted in 1992

Stuart Hemming — 5 Nov 92 16:15:00 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In-Reply-To: <2i9NTB1w164w@cssnet.UUCP> david@cssnet.UUCP (J. David Schronce) In <2i9NTB1w164w@cssnet.UUCP> J. David Schronce asks: > I'm preparing to upgrade from Informix version 1.10 to 5.0 and have some > lingering questions that I can't seem to answer, so once again I bow > before the collected knowledge of the net and pray for enlightenment. > > We are migrating all our database work to either an Altos 10000 or 15000. > I will have 30 -40 Informix users on this system. MOST of them will be > inserting/updating data into the various tables. > > We are a manufacturing/sales organization so the data is inventory > levels, customer data, order_header, order_detail, shipping info, etc.. > all interacting. > > In such an environment, do you think that th on-line engine is a > necessity, or is the SE engine equivelent to the task? > At this level of use, on the proscribed hardware, would the on-line > engine offer perceptibly faster access to data? > I suppose the REAL question is - Is online WORTH the $5000 difference as > compared to SE? - and why? I can't answer all of you questions but we're a manufacturing company with sales and purchasing departments all inserting/updating/selecting a variety of tables. We use SE with I-Net. The DB is on a 486 tuned for quick disk access and the apps run on 2 386 boxes (with a third on the way RSN). We have about 20 users and for the most part everything runs well and fast enough. Hving said that it could run fasted, but then if we all had a cray on the desk we'd still say it could run faster wouldn't we? -------------------------------------------------------------- | Who cares whos opinions these are?! | | Send me mail and I'll love you forever (Maybe) | |------------------------------------------------------------| | Stuart Hemming | shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk | | Tudor Labels Ltd | uunet!cix.compulink.co.uk!shemminga | | Roman Bank Bourne | Tel : (+44) 778 426444 | | Lincs PE10 9LQ. UK. | Fax : (+44) 778 421862 | -------------------------------------------------------------- Stuart |8-)