In my previous posting on The Fallacy of Minimum Hardware Requirements I talked about the differing motivations and expectations behind a set of Minimum Hardware Requirements for an application and I ended the thoughts by saying that one should question any such set of requirements that is greater than 3 years old. In November 2004 Open Text published a series of White Papers called "Livelink Minimum Hardware Requirements for 100- or 1000-User Populations" for the four main infrastructures of the day (Win2k with SQL, Win2k with Oracle, Solaris with Oracle and HPUX with Oracle) and although I was running the team that created these papers and I know that they remain relevant in some senses, I think the wisdom they try to provide should be questioned. Now questioned doesn't necessarily mean it is wrong, it just shouldn't be taken at it's face ... a lot has happened since 2004.
Usage Profile
Usage Profile is the name given to describe a particular mix of transactions within a specific Livelink (Content Server) based application. An Usage Profile provides the functions (groups) used within a Livelink system and the percentage or frequency that each function (group) appears. Usage Profile data usually includes transactional times which can then be used to size / scale a Livelink system.
