RE: Keep It Clean

What difference in cost??? What he means is that the hardware is cheaper, but then forgets little things like the OS, re-training, the increased downtime, the lack of stability and reliability. If he wants the system to run all day every day then use Unix, if he couldn't care then put it on NT. Microsoft recently published some typical reboot times, probably as part of their push for Win2000. The typical elapsed time between reboots was Win95 0.7 days NT4 5.x day Win2000 63 days Paul Watson # WFSoftware Ltd # If it was easy Tel: +44 1436 674729 # everybody could Fax: +44 1436 678693 # do it www.wfsoftware.com/informix # -----Original Message----- From: Mister Creosote [mailto:glynb@my-deja.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 10:21 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Keep It Clean I have just been asked by a client whether he should consider swapping out his UNIX box for a couple of NT machines to run his OLTP IDS system, given the seemingly large difference in cost. I have asked him to bear in mind minor things like resilience (!). Anyone out there want to add some weight to the argument in favour of UNIX (assuming, of course, you ARE in favour of UNIX) - remember the subject of this posting, though ! Regards Mr Creosote -- "Just a waffer thin mint?" Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.