Re: BAAN / IFX versions

Bob Roussey wrote: > > Have a question about Baan with Informix for a customer. > They currently have Baan 3.1 with the Baan database. As an Informix > customer with a growing database, they want to convert the backend > to IDS. Does anyone know of any customers running the 3.1 apps with > Informix 7.30/7.31 IDS on Unix? If so, are there things to watch > out for when doing the conversion? Will there be a large > performance hit when changing from a file-system database to a > relational database? I don't know about 3.1 explicitly, but we have customers running on 7.30 & 7.31. Check with Baan for the supported porting set for the version of IDS you intend to use. If you are converting from T-Base to IDS, then yes you will incur a performance hit. The level-1 drivers were written for flat file architectures. The level-2 driver is (allegedly) written for RDBMS's. You have to compare the loss in performance to the gain in robustness in terms of your business. Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ |Mark D. Stock - Informix SA http://www.informix.com |//////// /| |mailto:mdstock@informix.com http://www.informix.com/idn |///// / //| |http://www.iiug.org +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | Tel: +27 11 807 0313 |What year 2000 bug? year 2000 bug? |/// / ////| | Fax: +27 838250 2325 |year 2000 bug? year 2000 bug? year |// / /////| |Cell: +27 83 250 2325 |2000 bug? year 2000 bug? year 1900 |/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+