[geeks] Daily Dose of Unix

William S. wstan at xs4all.nl
Fri Jan 31 05:32:35 CST 2003


On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 09:14:43AM +0100, Bjorn Ramqvist wrote:
> Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > 
> > > AIX is probably the best for large scale database work, but that may
> > > just be because of DB2. I personally thin AIX + DB2 is the best of the
> > > major commercial DB platforms out there now.
> > 
> > I'm not convinced of that.  SGI has some seriously rocking database installs
> > using Origin systems - that's what they're used for really.  The Onyx
> > systems are desinged for visualization, while Origins are huge honking data
> > movers.
> 
> I'd say, Alpha EV68C/EV7, Tru64 and Oracle. That's a rush, believe me.
                 ^^^^^
Would this be a DS25/GS45?

Are either one of these in the range of being affordable
by a hobbiest yet? Sources?

> 

-- 
Bill
Amsterdam, NL


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