Re: Does anyone have serious databases on NT?

"Alex Hudghton" <alex_at_alenda.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

> Thomas Parsli wrote in message ...
> >"Alex Hudghton" <alex_at_alenda.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
> >
> >> Sorry to disappoint, but 8Gb is really not 'serious' :-)
> >>
> >> Alex
> >
> >Don't mix the words GB and serious...
> >Design, content and use is far more important than size.
> >
> >Thomas
>
> To quote the original poster
>
> 'Most serious (non-mainframe) projects always seem to go on Unix, AS/400,
> etc.'
>
> IMHO if someone is contemplating an alternative to a mainframe platform,
> then the database is not small, in terms of GB, complexity, design or
> content. Of course, there are 'mission-critical' databases which are small,
> but the object of the post (I believe) was to establish when people stopped
> using NT for 'serious (non-mainframe) projects' i.e those where the size,
> number of users and complexity are all 'large'.

But your wrote "Sorry to disappoint, but 8Gb is really not 'serious' :-)"... (yes, I did see the smiley;)

We have approx. 3GB financial data in our database -would that be serious?

Thomas Received on Wed Aug 04 1999 - 02:54:32 CDT