RE: Running Informix on a Pentium based System

I found a brief set of system requirements for IDS2000 at http://www.informix.com/informix/techbriefs/ids/ids_techbrief.htm, even details the requirements for NT. One thing I haven't heard in the discussions on this topic is the size of the database and the scope of the project. You're moving off of MSaccess - can we assume its going to be a small database? How many users? What kind of processesing requirements do you have. Informix is a great database solution - but don't doom the project to failure by not knowing your scope. There are alot of techies here (me included) that would love to build a terabyte size system even when the solution could probably fit on a laptop. Check out www.intraware.com for a free download to test on a system that you have first - if it doesn't work then, ask more questions here. Hope that helps. Joe -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.iiug.org]On Behalf Of Thomas Parsli Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 8:58 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Running Informix on a Pentium based System "Jerry Chimutanda" <jerry@compcentre.uz.ac.zw> writes: > We are considering switching from Access to Infomix, and my boss thinks > Informix can not be run on a pentium based computer, preferring someting > like a SUN box instead. > > Could I be enlightened here? Yes you could. Both SE and IIF.2000 (aka Dynamic Server 9.2) run on Linux. Linux runs on more hardware than windows and it's free. (Don't tell your boss it's free, suits usally gets bad vibes and starts thinking about communism when they learn this) It's also more stable and faster, but your boss probably don't care about that. I believe there's other intel-OSes you could use (SCO?), but other will probably tell.. If Informix _did_ care, they'd list supported OS/hardware on their pages -but they obviously don't. (-well I couldn't fint it...) Thomas