Re: Avoid Windows NT for database server - says the White paper!!

Posted in 1998

Jonathan Lewis — Wed, 02 Dec 1998 12:51:15 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

There is probably an element of truth in this though. I have built a carefully matched pair of databases on similar sized NT and (small) HP-UX boxes, and compared the resource cost for identical database engine activities. The HP-UX box used about one-third of the resources of the NT to do the same work. Then again I put together the NT kit for about one-third of the price of the HP. At a small enough scale it doesn't necessarily matter that NT is a hog. Jonathan Lewis Foxtrot <chef@roadkillcafe.com> wrote in article <366726de.4402875@keeks.ioc.ee>... > On Tue, 01 Dec 1998 21:17:35 +0000, Dev_Al <alavoor@yahoo.com> wrote: > > >Windows NT is a resource hog more suitable for graphics and win32 GUI > >apps. > > > >The paper at http://www.interbase.com/tech/icon/index.html says so ---> > > Oh, it's the Interbase doom mongers again. Do not make the mistake of > taking them seriously. > >