univac@pirates.UUCP (Chuck Brown) (08/16/90)
We (City of Savannah) are in the first phases of a conversion from a Unisys 1100/90 mainframe environement to a UNIX environment. Our network will (if current plans hold out) consist of a reasonably large UNIX box (Sequent / Unisys), an inter-building fiber backbone, and 6 Banyan servers with 400-600 nodes, all 386sx/VGA systems. The applications on the UNIX system will all be accounting based. The Banyan applications will be Word Processing, e-mail, spreadsheet, general office productivity) The UNIX applications will be primarily Informix based. Several questions have come up, and we would appreciate any information, comments, or critisims. - What would be the reason for selection of Unisys over Sequent, if any, since the box is physically the same? (U6000/80, 10 processors, 128 meg, 9 gig of mass storage). - Banyan claims that this type of arrangement will be difficult to manage with Novell, Novell claims otherwise. Opinions? - Applications we are looking for for this and other areas include: Municiple (fund) accounting Police/Fire Computer Aided Dispatch Parking Citations Utility Billing Vehicle Maintenance All comments welcome! Thanks in advance. ============================================================================== Chuck Brown City Of Savannah Systems Programmer 133 Montgomery St. Voice: (912) 944-4793 Room 507 uunet\!pirates\!univac Savannah, GA 31402 ==============================================================================