Re: [foxboro] Informix Historian vs AIM*

Re: The only advantage to us that I know of would be that AIM allows changes
while still running.

Ouch!

Here are a few other items:

1) Complete management of messages (Alarms, OAJ, SOE, Sequence Block, and
SysMon) - recording, archiving, presentation of information (with
AIM*Inform)
2) Much better archiving support
3) Much larger tag counts
4) Lower CPU consumption for reduction groups
5) OPC, ODBC, and OLE DB support
6) Growing suite of desktop applications

I think the message support is one of the key features of AIM*. 

Hope this helps.


Alex Johnson
Invensys Systems, Inc.
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 -----Original Message-----
From:   Bakke, Richard A [mailto:rabakke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent:   Thursday, March 27, 2003 3:35 PM
To:     foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:        [foxboro] Informix Historian vs AIM*


Asking for opinions concerning Informix vs AIM* Historian on 50-series:
    Having AP20's through 51D's, we have always been using the Informix
Historian.  We use it for trending (legacy Display Manager) and for
reporting (via reduction groups).  Since this Informix Historian is also
available at ver. 7 for the AW-51F we are planning to buy, is there a
really good reason to switch to the AIM* Historian?  The cost to us
would be learning new software and having the custom report package
interface re-written.  The only advantage to us that I know of would be
that AIM allows changes while still running.

Thanks,
Rich Bakke
Longview Fibre Co.

 
 
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