Re: book for beginner

My goodness.. SCO!!... Try Linux ! You can get a vey capable distribution (I suggest Mandrake 9.1) for just about US5 or less. The you can join iiug, I supposed you are, if not follow this link and subscribe: http://www.iiug.org/cgi-bin/fglcl.cgi?join&Ajeansagi@myrealbox.com After doing so, join to the member area and click on the download section button. There you find IDS 9.4,SE X.xx,Online 5.2 for Linux and Windows Install them; I used Mandrake since 8.1 through 9.1 and never had any "hard" problems. All was resolved without much trouble. At IIUG forums you can ask and every one and they will promptly answer any question including IBM-Informix people). And finally issue a dbaccess in a shells and choose Query, select any database, and do a "select * from systables"... that's all. In regards to books at www.iiug.org there is a recent link to Informix and DB2 books: http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/education/bookstore/ref.html You have plenty to choose from. Chucho! Steven Woody wrote: > Hi, group > > I was asked to lean Informix. Our Informix seems binded tightly with > SCO Unix. I am familar with Linux for years, but SCO Unix still looks > weird to me. > > Can anyone could suggest me something I can begin with, > maybe books or urls. I need to install a SCO + Informix from scratch > and learn administratration later. > > Another question: Is there any Informix for Linux? Can I get a free > copy just for development run? > > Thanks! > -- Atte, Jes's Antonio Santos Giraldo jeansagi@myrealbox.com jeansagi@netscape.net sending to informix-list