We are in the middle of planning an upgrade from BaanIVc3 to BaanIVc4 as well as upgraded hardware. Our HP servers are 7 years old and maintenance is becoming increasingly cost prohibitive. As a part of our cost analysis, we are evaluating running BaanIVc4 on SQLServer and Windows 2003.

We typically run 70 - 75 concurrent users. Our Oracle Database is approximately 55Gb. Our current platform is an HP V2200 4Gb RAM 4x 300Mhz processors.

Any advice regarding sizing or other performance related information is greatly appreciated. We are also looking for companies who have been running in a SQL Server windows environment and any issues they may have experienced.

Thank you,
Jason Foster
IT Applications Team Lead
Gardner Denver Nash LLC

I have no idea for your migrations issue but Don't give up from Oracle.
Cost or Well-designed system ? Think twice !

Good luck !

Why Baan4c4??
You are anyway planning to upgrade, so why not go for LN?


sk

We have about 60 - 70 users working (logged in) on our windows servers. Our Oracle database is about 120Gb but a lot of it is archive data.

We use 5.0c on two servers, one application server, one database server both have 3,5Gb internal memory, 2 cpu's (2.8Ghz) with HT. On these 2 servers we run 3 baan with 3 oracle instances.

Considered to use linux with oracle instead of w2003 with SQL server?

Baan on windows is stable, your end users probably will not notice the difference. Maintaining it is another issue.

Regards,
Han

Baan on windows is stable, your end users probably will not notice the difference.

I think they will feel the difference as a 7 year old system is performing much less than a current Intel box. Indeed for most environments up to 100 users a 2 way Intel box is great. As most environments have also jobs running during the day I would not recommend to buy a 1 way system.

Kind regards,
Dick

Jason,

I recently assisted a client to move from HP-UX (K Class machines) to single tier Intel + Oracle platform. Concurrent Baan sessions about 65 and organization has 130 user licenses. Hardware was spec'd with 12 Gigs ram and dual Xeon processors. We've been live for 6 months and no performance issues. Database remained Oracle and we upgraded to 9.2 from 8.x during the process of moving to Intel / Win 2K3.

Hope this helps!

Sukesh,

We are scheduled to go to SAP (Corporate driven iniitiative) in 2010, so we can't justify the expense of LN (training and migration) Going to 4c4 brings us a more stable Baan environment and eases patches management issues, without having a lot of retraining and process re-engineering. If we weren't going to SAP , I would definetly advocate a move to LN.

As far as the SQL Server vs Oracle debate, I really think that SQL Server has come around to a viable mature platform since the days of SQLServer 6.5. If we were dealing with thousands of concurrent users then I would have more concern about a move to SQL Server. My major concern with regards to switching to a full Microsoft platform is risk associated with viruses, security and Microsoft updates.