RE: subject: iSeries Legends

[Jim Damato <jdamato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>Joe: 
>>Show me a Unix box handling thousands of OLTP users
>>on gigabyte databases with subsecond response time. 

> Walden:
>Um, TPC-C work for you? Lots of systems there with
>sub-second response times across thousands of users
>and multi-TERAbyte databases (including, um, uh,
>Windows machines <G>).

TPC can get a little vague when you talk about processing performed on
clients and application servers.

The number of users a system is supporting doesn't necessarily translate to
OLTP work.  Depending on the architecture the online/user work may be
deferred to the client or an application server.  I'm sure you can find
exceptions, but in our Windows systems the OLTP equivalent functions are
running on another system.  In Unix you can probably find more examples of
traditional OLTP type work done on the server, rather than split out to
another tier.

Still, in the platform bias wars I find a lot of Unix/NT/Oracle admins who
will compare their database server to a
database/client/batch/reporting/application environment on an AS/400.  I
don't mind the comparisons as long as we compare the entire architecture.

-Jim

James P. Damato
Manager - Technical Administration
Dollar General Corporation
<mailto:jdamato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>