Re: Informix Online for Netware Database Server Version 4.1

I will be strong, I can resist, I will be strong'.NO, I can't resist! Nils.Myklebust@idg.no (Nils Myklebust) wrote: >You have posted this three times now, and apperantly have got no >answer (I can see non in the newsgroup at least). > >I can appreciate your desperate situation having a product that has >been abandoned by Informix. They did that for good reasons (Novell was >never a good platform for a database), but that doesn't help you of >course. There is at least another way to say this. If Novell was never a good platform for a database (and this is so much true - memory protection is almost non-existent), they did not do it for a good reason, they simply make a bloody obvious mistake. And make a some unfortunate guys pay for it. And after 3 years, made them pay again. >All I can say is that I wouldn't expect all the old software you have >to work on new platforms (Windows 95). I assume you ones had a working >environement (using Windows 3.x??). As hard as it may sound you may >have to go back to that setup. I am a living proof that 4GL for Windows behaves well on W95, in fact, better then on 3.x. Also, I-Net 5.01 even 16 bit, is working solid. The problem is between I-Net 5.x and 4GL, in FGLSQL.DLL, the same one that I am boring c.d.i. with for some time, without success. If he can use real mode IPX/SPX net drivers, and not Microsoft VxD, he can connect with I-Net 4.1. But, not with I-Net 5.x, because Informix has decided that they will distribute dummy DLL files to make things more exciting for the guy who obviously paid to little till now. (For details on 4GL/I-Net 5.x problem, look at my posts for a last month or so. There are so many, that You have my permission to hate me) >For a long term solution you should definitely go to Unix on the >server. Then you could run your 4GL application on that server with >terminal emulators on Windows 95. This may possibly be to expensive >for you even using SCO Unix on a PC. If that is the case you may have >to wait for the Linux port that we trying to push Informix into doing. > OK, You and others have done a great job in that thread, and yes, using a UNIX server would be a long term solution, but, don't You think that using what he had paid for is worth considering? And, BTW, did you try 4GL f/w on 95? Did anybody? The only problem with it is that with I-Net 5.x, if we skip the Micro$oft Windows part. One may think what one wants, but users wants Windows, not the bloody terminal emulators, end of story. >There is an option for Linux right now as well by running the SCO >version of Informix SE. As far as I know you will have to get access >to an SCO machine to compile your 4GL code, but it will run on Linux. >This setup will with all probability give you as good performance as >you now have on Novell. > >If going to a Unix server isn't something for you, you should expect >to continue having eternal problems with non supported and very old >software. Sorry, but that's the way the world is moving. > Very old software? Let me see' aha, Copyright 1994. What, the same year that Microsoft presented Windows 95? Andrej. #include<std.disclaimer.h> **************************************************************** * Andrej Falout, RDBMS R&D, Croatia, Europe, afalout@zg.tel.hr * *--------------------------------------------------------------* * If you can read, You can do it ! * ****************************************************************