Re: Running Informix on a Pentium based System

From: "Jerry Chimutanda" <jerry@compcentre.uz.ac.zw> > >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? Your boss is both right and wrong, grasshopper. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

In article <8l480m$37r$1@news.xmission.com>, Obnoxio The Clown <obnoxio@hotmail.com> writes > >From: "Jerry Chimutanda" <jerry@compcentre.uz.ac.zw> >> >>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? > >Your boss is both right and wrong, grasshopper. Oh, young Jedi. Do the path of oneness you seek? Of performance What do you know, hmm? Sun box are certainly faster since Intel boxs a) do not scale as well b) have much worse I/O performance which is crucial to a database. Also Solaris is a lot easier to debug almost any other Intel UNIX SCO does not have truss to trace system calls which is needed for debugging. UNIXWare has no sar or vmstat?? something like that, I remember looking at another tool to debug performance problems. Certainly UNIXWARE has no iostat -E to list predictive failures on hardware and show EEC recovered errors on the drives. Linux is fine but remember that using Solaris on Ultrasparc hardware means Sun make the software AND THE HARDWARE. If there is a bug you have only one vendor to go to and Sun are responsive when it comes to support calls. >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > -- David Williams