UDO on LINUX

Hi, There! My understanding is that Informix is not planning to port the Universal Data Option (formerly IUS) to Linux. Very well, is anyone running any other ports of UDO on Linux? Which ports on which Linux kernels? What sort of experiences/successes/problems/failures/admins-jumping-off-window-ledges have you had? In the same vein, what about the datablades, as I am especially interested in Web and Text-Search (Excalibur or Verity)? I cannot afford to test this for very long with making some sort of commitment, so I am actively seeking as much info as possible, and DejaNews only helped confirm that UDO may never be ported to Linux. Is there any conflicting information available? Topher TheRead "Y2k cannot be the end of the world; NT 5.0 won't be out, yet!"

I don't know of anyone who have tried any version of UDO on Linux. The only possibles would be a version for Solaris X86 or SCO. I don't even know if those ware availbale. My educated quess however is that UDO will be ported to Linux and that it will happen within this year. This is not based on any kind of insider information or anything I have heard from anyone at Informix or anywhere else. In fact I have heard only the same information you dug up that it will not be ported. However Informix do plan to make plain IDS and UDO into one and the same product. That means that they'll have to port at least the core of UDO to Linux to keep up with the latest version of IDS (9.x or whatever it will be called). With more and more of the big guy's becoming interested in Linux (SAP beeing one of the latest) it lies clearly in the cards that the full UDO will be ported. It's also clear that Informix needs UDO on Linux to get the support and development resources of the Linux community on to the UDO engine. That could help them along into making this the successfull product it should be. We do "character and numbers" applications only (no "fancy" datatypes) but sure could use a lot of the features available only in UDO to create much better applications for our customers. The day Informix ports it to Linux (and sell it at a reasonable price) we'll start using it and help create a huge demand for it. If people only knew what they are missing they would rally to Informix to get UDO - even those with "old fashioned" "character and numbers" applications only. That's actually a huge market that Informix is currently missing out on, partly due to their pricing of UDO, partly due to it's non availability on key low cost platforms. (NT is not particularly interesting of course, and the price even there is out of our leaque.) The day Informix understands the pricing and availability issues related to UDO it will become a significant product in the marketplace. They do however not have much time for it. Hopefully they'll announce UDO on Linux at the user conference this summer, or even before. On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:37:00 -0600, Topher TheRead <TopherTheReadREMOVE@SPAMBLOCKnetscape.net> wrote: >Hi, There! > >My understanding is that Informix is not planning to port the Universal >Data Option (formerly IUS) to Linux. > >Very well, is anyone running any other ports of UDO on Linux? Which >ports on which Linux kernels? What sort of >experiences/successes/problems/failures/admins-jumping-off-window-ledges >have you had? > >In the same vein, what about the datablades, as I am especially >interested in Web and Text-Search (Excalibur or Verity)? > >I cannot afford to test this for very long with making some sort of >commitment, so I am actively seeking as much info as possible, and >DejaNews only helped confirm that UDO may never be ported to Linux. Is >there any conflicting information available? > >Topher TheRead > >"Y2k cannot be the end of the world; NT 5.0 won't be out, yet!" Nils Myklebust NM Data AS Norway E-mail: Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com FAQ at: http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html (Now with ODBC info under "Third party products".)