Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi,
My customer is looking for advice of comparisons between WTX running on Windows or Linux.

Does anybody know:

1/ Numbes as to how many of our customers run on Winddows as opposed to Linux?
2/ Comparisons of WTX on Windows or Linux
3/ Any recomendations to run on Linux instead of Windows ( for WTX)

Thanks

Tim
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Originally posted by: TarunB

Tim

You'll be able to get more comprehensive statistics from the IBM support team, but from my experience Linux deployments of WTX are probably very rare. Windows/WTX implementations are also somewhat rare on an enterprise scale, though ironically I am working on one at the moment.

Overwhelmingly, the majority of WTX implementations I have worked on have been on some flavour of Unix, such as AIX, Solaris or HP-UX. The reason for clients choosing these is perhaps just largely down to enterprise wide decision making, but technically I have seen WTX worked immensely on 24/7 global operations on these OS so am quite happy to validate those decisions.

Horses for courses I guess. Windows servers, if built appropriately, can handle a decent sized operation too. I never thought I'd say that, but it's proven by the system I'm working on right now. There's no reason why Linux wouldn't be able to prove a suitable host for WTX too, especially given it's similarity to Unix based operating systems.

In general, Windows will most likely be easier to manage, especially seeing as WTX doesn't often require deep technical configuration, but the OS licensing costs will be more. Having said that, the decision for your client may well be determined by what other applications form part of their integration architecture, and by what platform they are able to support with exising capabilities.
Best of luck,

Tarun
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Not sure I'd agree with Tarun, my feeling is that Linux is only starting to be seen in the corporate world.

I worked in at least two customers I can remember who where using Linux, one is a small business ( 1K employees) and chose this for price, the other one is much bigger, dunno why they went Linux but I'd guess TCO also has to do with this.

On these implementations, Linux was clearly on par with the other Unices (or Unixs ?)
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Originally posted by: TarunB

Salut Laurent, je pense que nous sommes d'accord plus que nous sommes en désaccord!
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Wow Tarun, je ne savais pas que tu parlais français !!
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Originally posted by: thorstenhirsch

You might want to take a closer look at the requirements of depending applications like MOM. In our case we decided to use Solaris/SPARC, because WTX had to be on the MQSeries server - which was already there, running on Solaris/SPARC, which was a much better combination than MQSeries on Windows ...well, that was 12 years ago.
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Originally posted by: FormerBuckeye

I've run WTX (and predecessor products) on both Solaris and Windows Servers with success on my current project. We migrated from Solaris to Windows when the old, reliable SUN box was retired. Performance improved due to the faster processors. Last year, we migrated from a standard Windows server to a VMware virtual Windows server with another performance improvement. However, I've noticed a slow, steady degradation in performance over the past 4 months due to more projects moving to the VM servers. I'm releasing a multi-threaded version of the outbound inquiry batch next month to optimize the job for the environment. I'll also continue to run our inquiry data through the current version of the batch in a test region to generate another 6 months of performance data. This will allow management to determine if the agreed VM service levels are being met.
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