Re: SCO Open Server and Informix 7.3 - How far can I go with this

Posted in 2000

Mark D. Stock — Thu, 30 Mar 2000 21:54:04 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > > From: Gary Quiring <gquiring@netlabs.net> > > > >Is Solaris 7 for the Intel platform a better solution? Do I really > >need to goto a UltraSparc platform? I priced out a 4 chip UltraSparc > >and was in the 250K area with DLT, 4 gig, 18 drives (18 gig each) and > >other stuff (rack, Veratas etc). The config is around 3 times more > >costly than a similiar Intel XEON server. > > Yep. I don't really like Solaris for Intel. (To tell you the truth, I don't > like it much for SPARC, either! :-) Have you looked at HP or IBM? Or a > Penguin box? Of the bigger machines, DEC Alpha is the most compatible box with Informix, IME. Oh, that should be Compaq Alpha of course. Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ | Mark D. Stock mailto:mdstock@mydas.freeserve.co.uk |//////// /| | http://www.informix.com http://www.informixhandbook.com |///// / //| | http://www.iiug.org +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | |What year 2000 bug? year 2000 bug? |/// / ////| | |year 2000 bug? year 2000 bug? year |// / /////| | |2000 bug? year 2000 bug? year 1900 |/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+