Re: NT vs Unix Performance HELP!

On Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:46:05 GMT, jlumbley@netcom.com (Joe Lumbley) wrote: >Jason Hanks (jasonh@bcs.com) wrote: >: Word of advice.. Informix Windows products are a joke.. They don't work >: well.. They are a pain to configure.. And the Online server for windows nt > >Well, I guess this is just a case of YMMV. I'm the worlds largest UNIX bigot, >yet I'm continually surprised by the performance of our up to 200gig DW >product running on NT 4.0 under OnLine Dynamic Server 7.23, with a 32-bit >Powerbuilder GUI. > >I've worked extensively with HP from 9 to 10.20 on OnLine 5.x to 7.23. The >worst performance nightmares were from a HP K440 (Ithink) with 7 processors. >I have a Gateway 4-processor NT box running NT4.0 that is blowing away the >HPs. > >Don't discount Informix on NT. Agreed. Just for the info it's very likely you would see similar performance on the same PC type hardware with Unix on it for those who want to do that. > >jpl >-- >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Joe Lumbley(jlumbley@netcom.com) author of: "INFORMIX DBA Survival Guide" > >Slaving away on "INFORMIX DEBUGGERS Survival Guide", available early 1998 >from Prentice Hall/Informix Press. If you have debugging tips, tools, or >ideas to share, please send me some e-mail. >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nils Myklebust NM Data AS Norway E-mail: Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com FAQ at: http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html (Now with ODBC info under "Third party products".)