RE: Informix for IBM S/390

From: kirk.waterhouse@cibavision.Novartis.com > >Why don't you re-read the whole thing from the beginning. No thanks, I'm bored with it. >I was describing one of the possible ways, method 3 in the list, to run >Informix on Linux on a S/390 mainframe - as I understood it - not every >possible incantation of mainframe configurations. > >I am a UNIX guy and I was simply saying that it sounded like a lot of >layers >to run a database on. It reminded me of when I used to run Word Perfect in >a Mmmm... >dos emulation session on an Altos 10000 - 486 with 32 meg of ram with 100 >people on it. Ahhh, those halcyon days... >It worked, but was not the best possible solution. There is the small but important difference in the sheer horsepower of the 390 though. Sad but true, still way faster than any Unix box I know of. >Besides, none of this is actually possible since Informix does not support >Linux except on Intel Oh I don't know, apparently all you have to do is say "make linux" .... :-> ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com