Online 6.0 Upgrade ?

Posted in 1994

Richard Ridley — 24 Jun 1994 02:03:04 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Chirstopher Cale writes: | We are contemplating converting from Online 5.01.UD3 to 6.0. |I respectfully request ANY information available from any of you |regarding the requirements for conversion. We run on IBM RS/6000 |Model 580 machines. |1. Is it worth converting? My opinion on this is that, performance-wise, if your machine has multiple processors, probably. If, however, you use single CPU machines, I have yet to see any results (benchmarking or otherwise) from Informix that inspires me to upgrade. There are a lot of results from machines with 8 CPU's, for example, but nothing concrete for single CPU's. There is, however, more flexiblility with the archives and restores which could be important for some sites. And there I was, happily thinking that most people are keen to move away from central CPU-powerfied machines to distributed environments ! Cheers, Richard Ridley DHL Asia Pacific