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Re: Need some advise on Informix versions

Posted By: rkusenet
Date: Tuesday, 21 January 2003, at 12:42 p.m.

In Response To: Need some advise on Informix versions (Olson, Kenneth (CAP, GEFA))

----- Original Message -----
From: "Olson, Kenn...." <Kenneth.Olson@gecapital.com>
To: <ids@iiug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 12:07
Subject: Need some advise on Informix versions [55]

> Keep in mind our support contract has elapsed and we are not receiving any
> more Informix products at this time.
>
> All OLTP
> We are now running
> Sunos 2.6
> IDS 7.24
> (everything has been running great here for years.)
>
> Other products that run on this server are not supporting 2.6 and may be
> forcing us to go to at least sunos 7
>
> I have software
> IDS 7.31 for sunos 7
> and
> IDS 9.21 for sunos 8
> and all the tools that go with them
>
> "Rumor" has it that 9.x's are very buggy and slower than previous versions.
> Is there any validity to this and is there anything to document this.
> I am not really looking for performance gains as I do not want to loose any
> performance from going from 2.6 to another version. Also, is there any real
> bugs that stand out with 9.21 running in an oltp environment?

I have used 7.31 in the past and currently using 9.21.UC4
and I can categorically state that 9.21.UC4 is not only buggy
but also slower than 7.31.

Messages In This Thread

Need some advise on Informix versions
Olson, Kenneth (CAP, GEFA) -- Tuesday, 21 January 2003, at 12:07 p.m.
- Re: Need some advise on Informix versions
  rkusenet -- Tuesday, 21 January 2003, at 12:42 p.m.
  - RE: Need some advise on Informix versions
    Meza, Silvana -- Tuesday, 21 January 2003, at 5:40 p.m.
- Re: Need some advise on Informix versions
  Obnoxio The Clown -- Wednesday, 22 January 2003, at 1:31 p.m.

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