Re: Informix on NT platform - Impact of 100 to 400+ Users

This was actually extremely interesting. The whole database was on one 4 processor 200 MHz Pentium Pro machine with 189 GB total disk space. The other servers where application servers of different types connecting to the over 1000 users (benchmark users). Compaq also have automatic failower to an alternate machine available. With other words this is techonolgy on par with Sun, HP and the other Unix suppliers. NT is growing up. But do also see my other post coming soon on NC/Java computing. david@go5.com (David W Chan) wrote: :Nils.Myklebust@idg.no (Nils Myklebust) wrote: : :>Greate. David was allways better informed than the rest of us on so :>many things. :>By the way, do you have a direct news feed from Informix? When you :>report such news I can at best find it on the Informix web site quite :>some time later. : :I have a bookmark to http://biz.yahoo.com/news/ifmx.html. : :There was another NT benchmark released today for SAP for over 1000 :users. This time they used 14 servers (1 database and 13 partitions). : :I would say NT is not as scaleable as Unix and that it requires more :resource than Unix but on the other hand the operational management :tools are easier to use. The big problem I see with Unix is that it :doesn't seem to be moving forward whereas NT is improving rapidly. :Unix will still be used for large database servers but the middle :ground is rapidly moving over to NT. : :David : :David W Chan :GO5 Limited :david@go5.com (work) :dwc@cix.compulink.co.uk (home) : Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org