Re: Help re: moving Website from UNIX/Informix to NT/SQL

Peter Wiley wrote: > > In article <01bc7d85$1f0d02c0$228eb6cf@station1.thejobmarket.com> "Marc Hatton" <mhatton@thejobmarket.com> writes: > >Question: I currently own a web site running on a Sun Netra i Internet > >Server w/ Solaris & Informix. I want to move the site to a Windows NT > >Server & SQL. I am not familiar with the technical feasibility, cost, and > >time involved in such a transfer. Does anyone have any advice, comments, > >suggestions, etc.? > > > >Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! > > Yes, Don't. > > If you do it anyway, spec your NT machine to be at least 2X the > performance of your unix machine. That way, you might end up with the same > level of performance that you have now. > > As for going from Informix to SQL Server....words fail me. Why don't you > just have a look at the features both have (NOT the marketing hype) and > ask yourself....why? > > There are only 4 DBMS engines I'd build a 24x7 database on, and none of > them are SQL Server. The only bad thing I've ever found about Informix is, > their marketing sucks and their support for developers trying to learn how > their s/ware works does too, compared to Oracle & Sybase. But technically, > there's no comparison. Streets ahead. > > FWIW, I've used NT4.0 for a very large Progress app (client insistence) so > at least there, the speed/resource comparisons are valid. If I was you, > I'd put an NT/SQL Server box together and do some comparitive runs. > > MAybe this isn't what you wanted to hear, but it's my experience. I will > say that NT4 is a lot better than NT3.5, but that's a very low base :-) > > Peter Wiley And to add to that: the cost for NT is going up dramatically. An article in the June 23rd issue of Computerworld shows the base price of NT to be going up 113 per cent. $4,000 USD/25-users compared to 4.0 which is $1400 USD/25-users. What's really interesting about NT is that no matter what platform it runs on it appears to run the same speed. My system at home is a simple little pentium 133 EISA machine, with 80 MB memory. The system at work is a Compaq Prolinia? with over 250MB memory, and doesn't appear to run any faster or "more better" than the smaller system. It's not like the system at work just screams with speed--it plunks along just like the smaller system--and I didn't set up the system at work. :-) If these were two UNIX systems there would probably be a noticable difference. -- Tim Schaefer \\\\|// tschaefe@mindspring.com (6 6) ------------------------oOOo---( )---o00o--------- http://www.inxutil.com