Re: FW: Best platform for Informix?

Dirk Moolman wrote: > > I must say, I had alot of feedback re. this one. Thanks Everyone ! > > I guess I will have to find out myself. There are so many people who love > all three (Sun, HP, IBM), that I still don't know which one is best. > > I've worked on Compaq (Unixware), HP and IBM and really liked IBM. Our small > HP machines run ok (about 20 users), but the big one (400 users) runs like a > dog. Seriously, and this is after having HP and Informix on site. > > Too many loyal fans out there - hopefully I'll get a chance to work on Sun > as well. Well if you still haven't got a..., er, decided, then you won't beat Compaq Alpha as a match for Informix. The only reason I would hesitate to recommend their tin is that they are not high up on Informix's porting list and consequently often have bugs long after the others get a fix. You certainly can't fault their kit, and they handle shared memory.... well, they handle it, which is more than can be said for any other box. As to porting, version 7.31 is now stable, but 9.20 is not really production. Although there may be a later 9.20 out now, but don't even think about 9.21 or greater. It's a shame, because out of the kit mentioned so far (all of which I have worked with), Compaq/DEC is by far the superior to run Informix on. Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ | Mark D. Stock mailto:mdstock@mydas.freeserve.co.uk |//////// /| | http://www.informix.com http://www.informixhandbook.com |///// / //| | http://www.iiug.org +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | |This email will self-destruct in |/// / ////| | |10 sec. If you received this email |// / /////| | |in error, sorry about the mess. |/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+