"Steve" <as@joe.ca> wrote in message
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> "Bob Bailin" <72027.3605@compuserve.com> a écrit dans le message de
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> >
> > "Steve" <as@joe.ca> wrote in message
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> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We have to replace our current Unix SCO Open serveur 5.0.6 with a new
2
> > > processors Xeon Server. I,ve been told to upgrade Unix to Unixware 7
to
> take
> > > advantage of the 2 processor hardware feature because it handles it
> better
> > > than SCO Open Server 5. The main app runs with Informix database. So
it
> is
> > > true that Unixware is better with a 2 processor Server than version 5?
> >
> > Wow, this sounds like the setup for a marketing pitch for OpenServer
6.0!
> >
> > "All the benefits of Unixware 7 in a familiar, easy-to-use OpenServer 5
> > user interface." You sound like the perfect upgrade candidate.
> >
> > Seriously, you might want to obtain an OSR6 media kit and explore its
> possibilities.
> > Just don't deploy it until Maintenance Pack 2 is released "real soon
now."
> >
> > Yes, it will probably perform better than OSR5, because more kernel and
> > driver routines are written to be multi-threaded, but do you really need
> this
> > incremental performance boost? Do you currently have SMP and a 2-CPU
> > system? Why do you need to upgrade?
> >
> > Bob
>

[Please don't top post]

> Thanks for replying. Our software provider who wants to sell us the new
> server, recommend a 2 processor Server because we are experiencing problem
> with the performance of our current server which is in a 100 or so user
> environment. He tells us that a 2 processor server with Unixware 7, SMP
and
> Hyperthreading would make that server very performant. But, another server
> reseller told me that there is not much difference between OPSR5 and
> Unixware 7 when it comes time to work with a 2 processor beast. Do you
think
> that's right? I mean do we really have to upgrade to version 7?
>
> By the way, our software provider wants to sell us an Acer Altos G710 3.6
> Xeon server. I got another quote from some else for an HP Proliant ML 350
> 3.4 Xeon which is cheaper than Acer's. Which one woud you recommend?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Steve


It would be very, very helpful if, as Bill has suggested, you let us know
what
sort of system you're using now: the type of CPU, the speed, the number of
CPUs, how much memory, how much disk space, what type of disk subsystem
(SCSI? RAID?) and most important, what kind of application you're running
with those 100 users and how they're all connected to the OSR 5.0.6 system
(networked PC's? dumb serial terminals?).

In order to determine where to go, it really helps to know where you are
and what you hope to accomplish. Or, you can just throw money at the
problem and hope it just solves itself.

Just out of curiosity, are you the system administrator for your company,
and are you at all familiar with administering your OSR 5.0.6 system? Or
is your software vendor responsible for setup & maintenance?

Bob