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

Reiner Kunz wrote: Hi Nils, you shouldn't say this. UNIX is such a catastrophy for administering. You need at least 4-6 monts to get basic understanding of UNIX interna and administration. Not to speak from installing the stuff. I'm working with a HP9000 and my admins will need 5 (!) days and three (!) consultants and a whole new unix machine just to get this damned thing from HP-UX 10.10 to 10.20. Full installation is required again when we'll get HP-UX 10.30. With NT installation or upgrading is just a snap. Absolut no problems. And no 3 consultants for a week, drinking my coffee ;-) Also, getting ODBC up and running is also a catastrophy. I didn't find *any* consultant capable or willing of installing I-CLI, Sequelink or OpenLink drivers. They're all 4GL centric. Maybe, because 4GL didn't change much for the last 7 years. So, they didn't have to learn something new. I forgot: My consultants told just to drop this Windows Development rubbish and to switch to Intranet solutions with Java and JDBC. Oh, my god! I still think, after fiddling around with all major OS brands that NT is a serious alternative to the whole bunch of multiuser systems like UNIX. And it's much cheaper, too. cu Reiner Nils Myklebust <Nils.Myklebust@idg.no> schrieb im Beitrag 33258058.15388407@gate.idg.no>... "Rob Culhane" <gsdrtc1@worldnet.att.net> wrote: Sometimes this is done from a motivation that GUI end user tools running under MS Windows (95 or NT) are easier to connect to a database running on Windows NT. Nothing is further from the truth. Sounds to me like you guys need some new SA's because unix is not that hard to administer. The easy way is far from the best way David Henseler