mark@drd.com (Mark Lawrence) (04/12/91)
DBMS magazine has a very interesting article this month comparing OS/2 and UNIX as appropriate DataBase server operating systems. Seems they were working on a super server benchmark comparison using Oracle, Ingres, SQL Server and so forth under OS/2 using various high-end Intel powered servers and discovered that there wasn't a whole lot of difference in performance for a particular vendor across the machines in spite of the fact that the actual machine performance (and cost) was spread widely. They began to surmise that the o/s was the bottleneck and decided to benchmark the same DBs on the same machines varying the o/s. Interesting findings (specifically about Oracle on a Compaq SystemPro using OS/2 and SCO MPX). More results to come in the following months. For those of you tasked with keeping up with hot hw/sw combos to serve PC networks, looks like just the ticket. -- mark@drd.com mark@jnoc.go.jp