Re: Hardware Comparison between SUN E6900 and IBM P570

On Thursday 30 March 2006 21:12, you wrote:
OTO Said

How much "database" does each seem to support?

Eh?

I was thinking it broad terms. For example at my last company we used
a 64 way sun box E10000 at the time, to support a badly written
application supporting 3000 users. The database was 400 Gigabytes.
Performance was reasonable until someone did something stupid. (cross
product 100 million row tables)

The problem is that MIPS, or benchmarks mean so little. So if you are
comparing IBM versus SUN one might quote you a tricycle and the other
might quote you a Ferrari. Of course the tricycle will cost less but
can it really beat a Ferrari? Since I haven't worked on a lot of
different hardware I can't tell if the salesbots are blowing smoke
when they say our 10 way is faster than their 16 way. It might be or
they are just trying to make a sale knowing that once we go to all of
the trouble of moving to the new platform they can sell us an upgrade
because our application is "surprise" not performing as we and they
thought it would. I know they would be so dissappointed to have
underestimated to get the business and then have us turn around and
have to buy more hardware.

I am also not the biggest fan of IBM (I had to write JCL for about a
year and I will never forgive them for this.) I am a fan of the power
processor it looks really fast.

How is AIX as an operating system? Can you run Informix on Linux on a
power box or will the Linux version only run on x86 hardware?
A native port of IDS 10.00.FC1 is available for Linux on a power box
(pseries). The x86 port of IDS do not run on a power box.

Andreas


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