FilePro running on Unix vs Windows

[Nancy Palmquist]

Cindy Youngman wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> My company, Floors, Inc. has asked me to research the possibility of us
> moving our system to a Windows based network platform. We are currently
> running under Unix 4.8 with 256 users (bumping our limit).  We have data
> files up to 1.6 gigs large (6.5 million records).
> 
> I would like to hear from some developers out there who are running
> systems on both platforms who can give me information on performance.  I
> would assume that Unix would perform much better than the Windows
> platform but I need confirmation from developers running on both
> platforms.

I will tell you that with only 64 users on a Windows based network, we 
have significant issues with network speed and data integrity.

I would never move such a system to Windows.

FilePro behaves (any database really) much better on a system with 
server-side processing.

I have a customer with just 64 users and close to 2 gig files, and to 
rebuild indexes we copy the data to Linux (7 minutes) rebuild the 
indexes (5 minutes a piece for 7 indexes) and copy the indexes back to 
Windows (7 minutes) all that takes less time than just rebuilding one 
index on Windows.  We are trying to move his system to Linux and have 
been preparing to do that.  We are using Linux to serve web pages and 
web processing.  He really gets frustrated with the Windows problems, 
but we have not yet had time to move the 100's of files and adjust the 
processing to *IX so on Windows it stays for now.

I can't imagine the issues you would have with 256 users on Windows.  It 
would not be pretty.

Nancy


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