Re: Linux vs. NT

Art S. Kagel said >David Coburn wrote: >> >> Has anybody any experience using Informix on NT vs. Linux yet? I am >> fishing for some relative performance numbers. Also useful might be if you >> also tried Informix vs. SQL Server on NT at one point, too. I realize that >> this is possibly not the best place for objective opinions on this, but who >> cares? ;-) > >That's going to be a tough comparison until IDS is available on Linux >at the end of the year (there abouts) since SE is not available for NT. However the latest iBCS for Linux allows IDS 7.20 for SCO to install and run on Linux. Unfortunately I don't have Linux and NT on comparable hardware but I've seen enough to be confident of saying that you *could* spec up an NT box to be competitive - but that on the same hardware just about anything else, Linux included, would almost certainly out perform it and be more reliable. And for anyone thinking about SQL Server... Informix' competition has been Oracle for a long time. Larry Ellison recently offered a reward to anyone who could show benchmarks that show SQL Server even *approaches* Oracle. Think about it... :-) (Yeah, that's marketing for you... :-) ) Mike -- .----------------------------------------------------------------------. | Mike Jagdis | Internet: mailto:mike@roan.co.uk | | Roan Technology Ltd. | | | 54A Peach Street, Wokingham | Telephone: +44 118 989 0403 |