Sun/4 for accounting software (not IBM!)

[Howard C. Hart]

In article <4531 at brazos.Rice.edu> mtm at igor.philips.com (Marie McCall) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 16, message 13 of 18
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>*PLEASE HELP ME CONVINCE THE CONTROLLER SUN IS THE WAY TO GO, NOT IBM!!*
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>We are currently considering purchasing a Sun/4 to run interactive A/P,
>G/L, labor distribution, job cost system, and Fixed Assets.  We are

Unfortunetly, I'd tend to argue the other way. I'm no fan of IBM's, but
the one thing they do do right is transaction processing and accounting.
Sun fails pretty miserably in that department. We've tryed to get some
kind of decent accounting out of our Suns via the UNIX supplied sa
command. Sun just recently fixed it in 4.0.3, and it still chokes when it
finds the nobody user with group ID less than zero. What accounting it
does do is questionable. You can't save stats on a daily or hourly basis
since it only logs in the start and end of any process.  That means if you
do 3 day batch job like we do, you wind up with zero CPU utilization for
two days, and 5000 CPU minutes (in a 1440 minute day) for the last day. Up
to now, we have'nt found any third party software outfits that offer
accounting packages. If you find any, I'd like to know.

Howard C. Hart                UUCP:{sun!sunncal,pyramid}!leadsv!laic!nova!hart