Re: SCO not recommended for high number of users.

> > jparker@hpbs3645.boi.hp.com (Jack Parker) wrote: > > Jack, the following isn't written so much to disagrea with you as > to give others in the group some new information. No sweat - that's what this is all about. If I've got my head up my proverbial intake valve then you should tell me. > My point here is that the current numbers *seem* to show better > results - substantially better - than most medium sized risc based > Unix servers, including the K-series from HP. Currently it's simply > an interesting observation. It may very soon grow into something > much more than that. For the benefit of us users. And Informix will > be there to compete, and the way it looks now, compete very > effectively. I'm impressed and will be more so when I see it. > :with NT I hear a lot of talk on porting Online to that OS - not necessarily > :a PC OS I know, but not exactly running the Crays of the world yet. > > Yet may be the key word here, although you seem to forget the > availability of high performance Unix for PC servers which is also a > very interesting option. I hear a lot of talk about NT taking over a lot of places. Obviously something I should look closer at. Who knows in my next life I may very well get a chance to. :-) > they have done to gain a real presence at the top end. The only point > now is they shouldn't forget the low end "where the money is" :-) > There is money in the high end as well as the low end - probably > equally much so. > There is no conflict, and Informix is again doing the right through > their new OnLine Workgroup Server initiativ on Windows NT as well as > "small" Unix machines. > SE will *slowly* dissapear, but OWS will take over and become as easy > to administer, much more powerfull, and easy to upgrade. Great. If Informix were a bit bigger I would say no conflict - but then they might get too big and run into the IBM situation (RS6000 competing with AS400). There is still an issue there of where do you use the resources to best effect. If I can sell the fortune 500 (who are going to by 300 licenses each) big machine SW at $50K each vs going the small business route where I'm going to sell 30,000 at $5K all told - which do you think I'm going to opt for? (say 100 (of the 500) * 300 * 50 ==> 1,500,000K vs 150,000K) - just a guesstimate and maybe way off base, but then I'm sure you'll tell me if I am. :-). Anyway - where are you going to apply these resources? cheers j. _____________________________________________________________________________ Jack Parker - Hewlett Packard, DMD/IS Boise, Idaho, USA jparker@boi.hp.com <--- New address Currently on loan to PLD/PE _____________________________________________________________________________ If anything can go wrong, fix it. To hell with Murphy. _____________________________________________________________________________ Any opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employers. _____________________________________________________________________________