RE: What About Price vs. Performance?

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can you post your comparisions?  Hardware and a small description of what
happens in each application?

A few months ago I put together a package to replace an app run on IIS.
It's a base 720 and it's 100000 times better.  Mainly because of the DB
access.  There are millions of records to go through and the IIS server just
couldn't do it.

If you're comparing a standalone 1.5gz wintel box to a 170 already being
used for production, it's not a "fair fight".

I have found that the stability and speed of the AS/400 for moderately used
applications works great.  This is using CGI and native HTTP server.


Brad
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan M. Andelin [mailto:nathanma@haaga.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 10:13 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: What About Price vs. Performance?
> 
> 
> "Get thee to the Web".  We've been hearing that from IBM.  But I have
> concerns about iSeries price vs. performance for Web applications.
> 
> I've been reviewing published performance data recently on a 
> couple of Web
> applications.  Both applications were hosted on Intel 
> servers.  Microsoft
> Windows technologies were used to develop and host the applications.
> 
> I've also been developing OS/400 based web applications lately.  The
> problem, is that these Windows based Web applications perform 
> better than
> mine, and on systems that cost 1/6 that of mine.  The 
> complexity of the
> applications, and the size of the HTML responses, are 
> comparable to mine,
> but the hardware/OS price vs. performance is better by a 
> factor of 7 to 8.
> 
> So, how can I expect the iSeries to compete as a Web 
> application server?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nathan.
> 
> 
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