Re: Informix on Linux

Posted in 1997

Matt Wixson — Wed, 01 Oct 1997 08:41:33 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

JoSchneidr wrote: > > Me too, and furtheron I'd like a port to Tcl/Tk8.0 > Because Informix ist the only RDBMS with no serious port > of this language. I guess this is much more convenient for > them than to add Motif or Win Gui's to dbaccess ?? > > Look out for Oratcl, Sybtcl and adabastcl to see how far the > competiting RDBMS are. You can write complete platform independent > (Unix, Windows, Mac) GUI-Applications with a few lines of code even > as a Tclet inside a Webbrowser. > > Where's Informix in these Terms ??? Another wish list item - A 100% Pure Java JDBC driver for Informix. Needless to say, such a driver could work on the any platform with a JVM - including Linux. This would allow Linux to serve as either a client or as a server. Matt Wixson WXN, Inc.