My 2 cents: Are the persons applying the pressure MS preferred for its own sake or is it the result of an actual comparison of AIX to W2003. A client of mine bought into an MS app because of the implied greatness of MS only to have a huge disappointment.
mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sara Burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 6:48 PM Subject: UniVerse on NT vs *nix > I am under considerable pressure to convert from UniVerse on AIX to UniVerse > on Windows 2003. > > We have licenses for 320 users and do get up to this number at times > although 300 is more normal. > > We run up to 30 phantom processes during the day above this interactive user > count. At times these would be running in parallel, processing sections of > our customer base. This is a daily event during the afternoon whilst other > users are doing normal work. > > Currently we run UniVerse 10.0.11 on an IBM p660 with 4 cpus and 7Gb ram. > We also run Oracle and Vantive on this same box which is why the ram is so > high. We transfer data between UniVerse and Oracle real time using BCI & > OpenLink. The reverse is an in-house Oracle Pipes development which is > gradually being replaced by UniObjects for Java. I anticipate we would need > to run these applications on separate boxes if under Windows 2003. > > Our DBAs, both UniVerse and Oracle, are reluctant to go down this path as > they believe they will not have the same ability to monitor their systems. > > I would appreciate comments, good and bad, from anyone with experience of > this number of users in an Windows environment. Email me off-line if this > seems appropriate. > > Thanks in anticipation > Sara Burns > > Sara Burns (SEB) > Project Leader (Vantive) > Public Trust > Phone: +64 (04) 474-3841 (DDI) > > Mobile: 027 457 5974 > < <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Information contained in this communication is confidential. If you are not > the intended recipient the information should not be used, disclosed, copied > or commercialised. The information is not necessarily the views nor the > official communication of Public Trust. No guarantee or representation is > made that the communication is free of errors, virus or interference. > > > -- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
