I'll vote with Helen on this, it normally depends on which environment is
currently in use / understood by the company employing IB/FB. For us, we
don't have any commercial Linux experience at the moment and nor do our
clients, therefore NT is the choice.

Most sites that I go to are not really pushing IB/FB to its limits and
problems they face (IB/FB poor query plans / poorly designed DBs / poorly
implemented client code), would impact any environment.

I did read your orignal post, but couldn't think of anything that wouldn't
require a significant tome to reply.

So for my one piece of advice - poor client code will always kill server
performance. This seems to be the biggest problem that I face day to day.
Oh and wear sunscreen :-) .

JAC.


"Helen Borrie" <helebor@...> wrote in message > I didn't see your
previous posting but I guess I would have had the same

> kind of reaction - that most of us are working with h/w configurations

that

> suit our own peculiar requirements and wouldn't be in a position to

provide

> comparisons of "powerfulness". At the end of the day, what the end-users
> find most usable is the best...