RE: Best platform for Informix?

> On Jue 16 Nov 2000 10:08, Watson, Paul wrote: > > > > Yeah but did you see the cowboys that sent them up:-) I know > > some of the Sun guys that reviewed that installation and they > > claim they were nearly in tears, and couldn't believe Sun kit > > could be setup so badly. > > Ohhh, that would mean that after wasting a whole pile of > dollars on the SUN > hardware, you have to waste another pile (even bigger) so > that they configure everything? No, just employ competent people:-)) > Man, I never had the amount of headache when I worked on > Linux then the ones I have now with Solaris. > > Our leit-motiv is Solaris sucks. I've never had serious problems with any Unix, with the exception on SCO and that was only with the MPX extensions. I've used and administered them all execpet HP, but I grew up with SunOS and have always liked Sun, so it is my platform of choice. Paul Watson # WF Software Ltd # If its hard to code Tel: +44 1436 674729 # then it should be Fax: +44 1436 678693 # impossible to use www.wfsoftware.com # ********************************************************************** The contents of this e-mail are confidential to the ordinary user(S) of the mail address(es) to which it was sent and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of it, or any part of it, in any form whatsoever, and any actions taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. **********************************************************************

In article <8ve01a$a7e$1@news.xmission.com>, Watson Paul <Paul.Watson@fefc.ac.uk> writes > >> On Jue 16 Nov 2000 10:08, Watson, Paul wrote: >> > >> > Yeah but did you see the cowboys that sent them up:-) I know >> > some of the Sun guys that reviewed that installation and they >> > claim they were nearly in tears, and couldn't believe Sun kit >> > could be setup so badly. >> >> Ohhh, that would mean that after wasting a whole pile of >> dollars on the SUN >> hardware, you have to waste another pile (even bigger) so >> that they configure everything? > >No, just employ competent people:-)) > >> Man, I never had the amount of headache when I worked on >> Linux then the ones I have now with Solaris. >> >> Our leit-motiv is Solaris sucks. The above is *not* written by Paul Watson, but an attribution has accidentally got snipped before I got my hands on this thread! > >I've never had serious problems with any Unix, with the exception >on SCO and that was only with the MPX extensions. I've used >and administered them all execpet HP, but I grew up with SunOS >and have always liked Sun, so it is my platform of choice. And since it's one of the primary ports for Informix (HB-UX is the other) that also strikes me as a pretty good reason for using it for Informix. Surfer! Send email to: surfer at nevis-view dot demon dot co dot uk "I can resist anything but temptation" - Oscar Wild ;-)