[geeks] Daily Dose of Unix

Bjorn Ramqvist v53278 at g.haggve.se
Fri Jan 31 02:14:43 CST 2003


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.

/Bjorn


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