FW: Re: DIGITAL and INFORMIX

Another company that should be added to this list and has also put out some "pretty outrageous" TPC scores is Sequent with their NUMA technology. Sequent is also a first tier company. Informix in fact has a portion of its development staff actually at Sequent's headquarters. In addition to that, Sequent's support cannot be beat. As a smaller market provider (as opposed to the others mentioned) their biggest distinction is in their service and support (and they make some good hardware to boot). We looked at Sun, HP, IBM and Sequent when we bought our new box and decided on Sequent. Haven't regretted it a single day! --- On Wed, 13 Aug 1997 20:34:18 -0500 Greg <greg@cyberramp.net> wrote: Both Sun and HP have posted some pretty outrageous TPC-C and TPC-D benchmarks lately using V8 Informix VPS and their latest hardware. Just totally wiped the floor with the current Oracle, other DBMS's on similar hardware.... If I were going to be living on the bleeding performance / capacity edge, I'd tend to stick to the tier 1 XPS ports, i.e. Sun, HP first, maybe IBM AIX. From a price / preformance standpoint, my guess for such a large system would be that Sun & HP, in order would probably lead. If you need the fastest possible single processor, or 64 bit virtual addressing DEC Alpha with Digital Unix rules though... depends on what you need. My guess is that Sun E6000 or E10000 building blocks with XPS can handle anything you can throw at it for the lowest bucks. All of course is IMHO.... gm p.s. use your favorite search engine to lookup tranaction processing council or TPC, study benchmarks and results.... Edward Bidinotto wrote: > > Does anyone have any expertise working with > Digital 8200 or 8400's and informix? > > we are looking for some benchmarks. We are currently > using an HP platform... T500's and K210's however are > looking at other options for expansion. > > Tks > Ed > > edbid@cobe.com -----------------End of Original Message----------------- ------------------------------------- Name: Bill Weaver E-mail: bweaver@fscorp.com Date: 8/14/97 Time: 9:06:24 AM This message was sent by Chameleon -------------------------------------