Thanks, Alex. Two questions: 1. How is the ease-of-use of AIM* compared to Informix? My understanding is that AIM* is capable of many things, but this unfortunately makes it complex to wade through. 2. Does the AIM* have reduction groups? My understanding is that a reporting application would need to do the reducing itself. Rich Bakke "Johnson, Alex (Foxboro)" wrote: > 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. > 10707 Haddington > Houston, TX 77043 > 713.722.2859 (office) > 713.722.2700 (switchboard) > 713.932.0222 (fax) > ajohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx > For the latest information on ArchestrA, go to > www.invensys.com/Archestra.html. > > -----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. > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process > Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at > your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html > > foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro > to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join > to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process > Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at > your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html > > foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro > to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join > to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave > _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave