Re: What is the best platform for Informix 7.x?

Nils Myklebust wrote: > > David Williams <djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > :In article <33bbe71d.24655512@gate.idg.no>, Nils Myklebust > :<Nils.Myklebust@idg.no> writes > > : I main problem with SCO we found was that it was not stable. > : We had 5 SCO boxes and used to have crashes at least once every 2 > : weeks. Try doing something simle like filling up the root partition > : and see how long it stays up for. We never managed > 2 hours..., > : we'd come back in in the morning and Yes XXX rebooted again last > : night.. I had problems with SCO 5.0.2 for few months. SCO guys had problems with TCP/IP implementation (STREAMS)... I loaded oss449e patch (subversion oss449a was a horror) and no problems since then. But SCO is selling 5.0.4 version now and I don't know if it is so stable as 5.0.2. > 640k limit? What's that on Unix? Have never heard of it. > Standard bus? The PCI bus is ok, or what is wrong? > Correct of course that SCO Unix doesn't identify new hardware, and you > have to know too much about it to install it. This could easily have > been fixed, but SCO isn't the best guys in the world on such things. > One small reason for wanting a port to Linux which is better it's > said. > > : It's less SCO as the hardware arhitecture.... > > The architecture has evolved significantly the latest years though. > Have you looked at a Compaq lately or other top PC type hardware? Well.... PC architecture is very old and I would say obsolete. If you don't want to have any additional problems then go with a brand name computer (Compaq for example)... If you go with SUN it will be even better. SUN can control the development of the hardware. Their hardware is much more reliable than *ANY* PC hardware, including Compaq's. Remember that Compaq computers are STILL PCs! > That means the TPC/C results are bad and this is very interesting. Can > you give some hard numbers? > Real speed in real situations is the major differentiatior for us as > long as stability and reliability is there. Don't count on MHZs and all other marketing tricks... For example, our *very old* SUN SS20 (1 SuperSPARC II 50MHz) STILL beats Pentium/166 in most things... It is able to handle about 30 users at average and it's uptime is somewhere near 200days or so. The last shutdown was because we had to add another disk drive... Our Compaq prosignia server (also very old) had several ECC errors (unrecoverable) in 3 years... It's uptime is somewhere 60 days or so. Well I'm still glad that it works near expectations... But not as good as SUN SS20. The real issue here is if your budget can handle SUN's expensive hardware. If yes then go with SUN. Never mind the $$$ difference. =boris -- ============================================================================ Boris Benko, dipl.ing. | E-mail: Boris.Benko@telekom.si Telekom Slovenije, PE Murska Sobota | B.Benko@s-gms.ms.edus.si Senior Prog./Sys admin./Informatik | Boris.Benko@uni-mb.si Slu'ba za informatiko | Phone: +386 69 31 676 | +386 69 37 800 21 ============================================================================