Re: Recommendations on hardware for informix wanted

Greetings You're right, Gary, first is just first. Also, I was suprised to hear someone suppose that Informix is secretive about platform tiers, and porting schedules. If a client needs information on acceptance platforms etc, there's no clandestine issue here. Also, 'first' is usually only a window of 3 months. These priorities also reflect market share. There's also the issue that, certain platforms - DG is a good example already raised - feature design advances which will prompt Informix to port that platform. The current ports for DSA will be predominantly SMP machines. Of course this may include some products which are uniprocessor but are in an SMP product line. Regards Adam gburnore@netcom.com (Gary L. Burnore) writes: >Jim Burks (jburks@promus.com) wrote: >: Informix can't say this, but their customers can ... >: New releases come out first on Sun, HP, IBM AIX and Sequent. >: If you want the latest functionality first, try one of these. >There's something to be said for not being first as well. First doesn't >mean best, it just means first. >-- >gburnore@netcom.com >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > How you look depends on where you go. >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- # Regards # Adam Green, Federal Office, Canberra # Product Manager - Australia # Ph. + 61 6 273 1200 Fax + 61 6 273 1220 eMail adamg@informix.com