Re: There needs to be a free Informix Express

I read through the info quickly, so I could have either misunderstood or simply not read what I needed to. But, in the small amount of time that I spent looking it seemed to me that you could use them as you saw fit but they came with cpu, memory and possibly connection limits. Please correct me if you're so inclined. ----- Original Message ---- From: Neil Truby <neil.truby@ardenta.com> To: informix-list@iiug.org Sent: Thursday, October 2, 2008 12:52:15 AM Subject: Re: There needs to be a free Informix Express "DL Redden" <redden96@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:mailman.9.1222919998.874.informix-list@iiug.org... >> Sun has MySQL, Microsoft has MSSQL Express, Oracle has 10g Express. IBM >> has DB2 Express-C but no Informix *free* Express. There is one but if you >> actually wanted to use it in a small production web environment it'll >> cost you at least $5,000 (due to PVU costs). >> I find it frustrating to be a cash strapped startup that's designing a >> website and not having the ability to build on Informix. I could build on >> virtually every other DB out there and deploy to production with it, but >> I can't use the one I'd like to build on because IBM doesn't like IDS. ... >> BTW, I'm aware that I can download IDS from iiug.org but it specifically >> states that it's to be used for non-production uses. You're allowed to deploy the free downaloads of Oracle or DB2 in production if you haven't got much money? Really?? _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list