Before you spend money on new AWs, I hope you have reviewed the
possibilities of adding more memory, reducing your PI data parameters to
reduce the changes per minute rate, and made sure your OM () lists are
optimized. Are you running the PI server on your AW? If so, I would
recommend
A couple of years ago I asked this question of a Foxboro V.P. at a user's
group meeting question/answer session. I was told that this was a
'marketing decision' made by Foxboro, which means: no, you don't really need
a new license, that's just the way they have decided to do things. I gather
You can pick up a refurbished SUN SPARC 5 180 MHz box for about $1000, or a
110 MHz for about $600. This is the faster 51B box, and the 180 MHz should
be pretty snappy. We upgraded from 51A to 51B (old 85 MHz boxes) and saw a
big improvement. I don't know exactly what else you need, but make
