Re: Informix OnLine 7.2 for Windows NT Problems...

billy@west.co.za ("Billy Wheeler") wrote: :On 23 May 97 at 13:11, Nils Myklebust wrote: : :> Sorry, but it's Informix who is utterly, totaly, completely s... on :> this. Even on Unix they have so many connectivity problems. Why :> can't someone at Informix at some time listen, learn and do the :> right thing on connectivity. It is possible to do in such a way that :> it works almost automatically out of the box. By now I believe a lot :> of customers have heard about all the connectivity problems in :> connection with Informix an go somwhere else. That's sad for an :> otherwise so excelent product. : :Huh? What connectivity problems does Informix have on Unix? On Unix it's generally not problems in the sense that it doesn't work. It does. There are however far to many things that have to be set up in a not too intuitive way (sqlhosts, /etc/services ++). A tool is needed here to make things realy simple. (There may be problems related to hosts files - .rhosts, /etc/hosts.equiv and possibly others - but that I don't currently know well enough to evaluate.) This is far from the biggest issue of course. The big issue is the connectivity from MS Windows (95 and NT) to Unix and to Windows NT. That is so bad it's indescribable on the net. Other database vendors may have even worse connectivity options, but that is no excuse for Informix. Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org