Re: SCO not recommended for high number of users.

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!! -- David Williams