Building an unbeatable Performance Appliance

I'm proud to announce an excellent article written by my old friend and Informix fellow Christian Winterhager exclusively for The Informix Zone. Christian has a quiet long history working with Informix, actually he taught me Informix. He programs, teaches and is doing consultancy for Informix products since the middle of the 80's. That's about 20 years now, Informix must be a cult database, no doubt about that.

In his article Christian describes the creation and management of raw devices on Suse Linux.

Combining the power of Linux on cost-effective hardware with the outstanding, bulletproof multithreading technology of IDS creates an unbeatable performance appliance that scales significantly better with lesser hardware resources than a comparable Oracle or DB2 installation.

So go on and read Christian's article which desribes the creation of Linux raw devices, an important step for building an unbeatable Linux/IDS performance appliance.

Raw Devices on Suse Linux...

If you want to know more about the scalability of IDS on Linux you should also take a look at this article from Sandor Szabo, Manager of the IBM Informix Development Team in Munich:

Exploit the power of Linux with IDS 10...