New UNIX Network Questions

[Chuck Brown]

We (City of Savannah) are in the first phases of a conversion from a
Unisys 1100/90 mainframe environement to a UNIX environment.  Our network
will (if current plans hold out) consist of a reasonably large UNIX box
(Sequent / Unisys), an inter-building fiber backbone, and 6 Banyan servers
with 400-600 nodes, all 386sx/VGA systems.  The applications on the UNIX system
will all be accounting based.  The Banyan applications will be Word Processing,
e-mail, spreadsheet, general office productivity)  The UNIX applications will
be primarily Informix based.  Several questions have come up, and we would 
appreciate any information, comments, or critisims.

 - What would be the reason for selection of Unisys over Sequent, if any,
   since the box is physically the same?  (U6000/80, 10 processors, 128
   meg, 9 gig of mass storage).

 - Banyan claims that this type of arrangement will be difficult to manage
   with Novell, Novell claims otherwise.  Opinions?

 - Applications we are looking for for this and other areas include:
   Municiple (fund) accounting
   Police/Fire Computer Aided Dispatch
   Parking Citations
   Utility Billing
   Vehicle Maintenance

All comments welcome!  Thanks in advance.

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Chuck Brown                                               City Of Savannah
Systems Programmer                                        133 Montgomery St.
Voice: (912) 944-4793                                     Room 507
uunet\!pirates\!univac                                    Savannah, GA  31402
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