Informix and DEC (Alpha and Digital Unix)?

Posted in 1996

Bill Jaeger — 23 Jan 96 05:23:50 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Howdy! We're looking to replace an RS/6000 running Online v5.0x with a new machine and Online v7.x. One of the platforms that we're looking at is the DEC Alpha running Digital Unix. Informix says that they don't consider DEC to be a "first tier" vendor, and that releases/fixes are typically longer in coming for a DEC platform as opposed to HP/IBM/Sun. How bad can we expect this lag to be? Does anyone have any horror stories about Informix on an Alpha? Any and all feedback is welcome! Thanks, -Bill wlj@cais.com