'But the good thing on the technical front is we didn't have to use Unix ...X013 page 022.01 (tape 04.1.03) Gordan Notes/Trans/Tape 30/09/93The reason we expected to have to use Unix is that we thought we would need a server of the kind of power of an RS6000 type box to deal with the volume of data, ... and of course literally while we were developing the system, Compaq kept coming out with more and more powerful file servers ... and we're running the Novell version of Sybase and from a performance point of view there is no problem, bottle-neck or anything, at the server level it's delivering the data as fast as you could hope for. Where the performance problems comes in is on the client side running the applications on the PC, so we haven't had to go for Unix we've just got standard Novell, everywhere. Which saved us a lot of money which really is the reason why it came in under budget and it simplifies things because you haven't got the overhead of trying to manage a Unix network.'
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