Re: Informix running on Linux

Denham.M@amstr.com said to st-ID: >If you run into a problem, you can generally be assured that someone, sometime will >solve it. All you have to do is wait. Even some businesses are prepared to work with >software maintained in this way. And if you can't wait just put up the money and commission a fix. S'easy. >Compare this to the relationship that informix undoubtedly have with the likes of HP >and Sun. I would be surprised if their partnerships do not include some sort of >service level agreements over OS bug resolution. This is probably an essential >ingredient in the effort to maintain service to customers. If anyone wants that sort of arrangement I'm sure there are many that would be willing to consider it (Transmeta? Caldera? Red Hat? Linux International? Alan? David? Me? :-) ). I suspect every Linux developer has *something* they could really use but these companies that trot out the lack of support argument seem to expect to get it for free! (Do we assume Informix have such an agreement with SCO? There are bugs there which can be serious problems - such as the oss449 STREAMS stack corruption bug. Perhaps you are confusing political partnerships for marketing purposes with in depth kernel support?) Mike -- .----------------------------------------------------------------------. | Mike Jagdis | Internet: mailto:mike@roan.co.uk | | Roan Technology Ltd. | | | 54A Peach Street, Wokingham | Telephone: +44 118 989 0403 |