Re: INFORMIX OnLine 7.x

At 01:29 PM 12/12/94 -0500, SchuylerS@aol.com wrote: [nuke'd stuff] >This was prior to more than a few caveats from the NET, including >the comment from hector@vrinet.com about receiving new releases >on a more-than-monthly basis. Our INFORMIX Admin staff was NOT >pleased to read that. The reason for receiving many releases, was that until this or next week, 7.x was only released on Sequent. The formal release for HP and others, has not yet occurred (Beta recently completed). >We have the option of remaining on 5.02, going to 6.x or making >the leap (of faith?) to 7.x. If you do not have immediate, or near term need for any functionality which is part of 7.x, and 5.xx is doing the job, why upgrade?? There are many features however, that you may want, even if running on uni-processor systems (i.e. DBSPACE level backup/restore). I have been running 7.x in a test environment for almost a year, on Sequent. I recently converted our production system to a pre-release version of 7.1 a few weeks ago, and am pleased. I just received a copy of the official 7.1 "RELEASE", and am confident that it will address most if not all, of the few remaining problems in 7.1. I would suggest NOT upgrading to 6.x, mainly because, like any new release, it has some problems. Getting any of these problems resolved, will be difficult, since Informix is essentially treating 7.x as a maintanance release to 6.x. My reasons for upgrading are many. A large database (72GB), running on a 16 proc Sequent, I will be able to exploit many of the features in 7.x. I run a combination of batch and OLTP, and have found 7.x to be a much better version for this. Performance can be more easily monitored and tuned, not too mention the availability of PDQ. If nothing else, just being able to backup/restore, using multiple tape drives, in parallel, is worth upgrading. Jon ================================================================== Jon Vemo Internet: jvemo@cyberspace.com Bothell, WA USA ------------------------------------------------------------------ Watch out for road-kill on the information superhighway....SPLAT!! ==================================================================