Re: SCO not recommended for high number of users.

David Williams <djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In article <4qa8a0$nfp@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, Jack Parker ><jparker@hpbs3645.boi.hp.com> writes >>> >>> >From Jack Parker: >>> >Where else is the poor fellow going to find The Dave Snyder? There aren't >>> >a lot of folks out there who remember the days of Informix/SCO. >>> >>> >>> Hey hey hey, now! Some of us are still running production informix >>> systems on SCO. It's not that bad, unless you are into the huge db stuff! >>> It's quite ok for the smaller stuff. >>> >>> Of course, very few of our customers use SCO. :-) >>> They have HP's and Suns, etc. >>> >> >>I've still know of an SCO/RDS system I occasionally support from years ago. >>Way back when before REAL unix computers were in wide spread use in data >>processing SCO/Informix was a natural combo for small applications - I think >>it still is. SCO and SE are natural low-maintenance setups. Why my client >>once went two years without updating statistics OR backing up (>shudder<)! >>(200,000 row primary table). Dave won't say this about himself but he's >>one of the all-time gurus of the twain. >> > Yes It still is, at my last job which I only left ~Feburary, I used a > SCO/Informix box for development and supported software which ran on > a Pyramid with 512Mb Ram, 10 MIPS R4400 CPUS!! Excuse me, but have you guys read the TPC/C benchmark results lately. There isn't much that can compet with SCO on a Compaq Proliant 5000. Granted Informix haven't published any results, but the O-company has, and they are good, very good. I would expect Informix to beat them if they ever bothered to benchmark on such a platform. Yes, I know, TPC/C isn't all there is to this. We haven't tested with more than about 50 users and about 2 Gb db, but that is on a Compaq Proliant 1500 with a single 100 MHz Pentium. The responce times where very good, even while several batch update functions are running. The price/performance is hard to beat, and in a PC-world this is more popular with our users than installing "strange Unix animals" from the Unix only companies. There are many SCO installations arround with several 100 users, although I don't know what applications they are running, and can't recomend it to anyone using Informix. In my opinion it's very sad that Informix have had so little interest lately in PC based Unix servers. This ought to have been an easy question to answer. In case you haven't been following the developments in the "PC" arena Compaq and others are currently working hard on clustering technology probably using "FireWire" or "Fiber Channel" connections. This currently involves Windows NT as the OS, but may develop into very powerfull servers with very low price tags and easy administration. If Informix came out with XPS on such a platform with the right price it would be very interesting to us. With the download option from their web site, I next expect to see Informix OnLine Workstation and Workgroup Server on the Compaq Smart Start CD Roms. It's about time Informix creates a relationship to Compaq which is as near and dear to them as their current relationship to Sun and HP. Only the visibility it would create would be worth the effort. Nils.Myklebust@ccmail.telemax.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company