Re: Seeking comments on stability of Informix on various platforms

From: Jay Walters <jwalters@computer.org> > >I pushed the Informix sales people the other day on the stability of >their product and they told me it's as stable on NT as on any other >platform. I'm also considering Intel UNIX (whatever is most stable) or Well, let's say it's as stable as any other Informix product on any other platform as stable as NT. :-) >potentially Solaris/Sparc. Our experience with Informix on NT does lead >us to believe that Informix is a very strong player in the RDBMS market >if their UNIX software has the same reliability problems. And yes, some >of this might lead to the underlying O/S vendor, but my Informix sales >person isn't being very helpful in this regard right now. > >Right now my application is distributed across 3 4-way 2GB Pentium III >servers running a primarily OLTP application against a 45GB database. >This application is accessed via a web site and it needs to provide >short response times for both small transactions and larger queries. > >Areas of concern are ability to tune I/O, or for support from the >underlying hardware or O/S, in order to minimize checkpoint times. I >can't seem to get them much below about 6 seconds right now. > >Informix consulting has come in and told us we've tuned the system >reasonably well, but it wasn't clear whether the consultant really had >the depth of experience to state this definitively. Well, you must have had some doubts or you wouldn't be raising this as a concern. >You can help me by providing comments in the following areas: > >- comparitive comments based on real world experience with these >platforms. Pretty much anything sucks on NT. :-> There are people who claim to get good stability on NT, but they're few and far between. If you wanted something rock-solid, and you had to choose between Intel/NT and Sparc/Solaris, I'd go with Sparc every time. >- ideas on how to identify qualified Informix DBA resources (for >example Informix doesn't seem to be able to supply well trained >consultants) Eeek. Informix Certified Professional Program?? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com