Re: Informix running on Linux

Mark D. Stock wrote: > <snipped Nils' comments but they were all good I just wanted to respond to Marks'> > I think there is a big market for load and go products. Imagine: > You get a CD from Informix. > You have a virgin machine. > You load the CD, and hey-presto you have a fully operational database > server up and running. > If you want to shutdown the machine, you select shutdown from the menu. > When the machine powers up, your databases are on-line. > > This could all be achieved with a Linux port and some tinkering with > a Linux distribution. The user doesn't need to know they are running > Linux or how to load it. This concept should then work the same for > your application server and your mail server, etc. > -- > Mark. > Amen. Innovation. It's time. By the way, Linux 2.0.29 comes with sendmail... Imagine a small or large company doing replication with Informix on Linux, using all kinds of different PCs... Or clustering... It's so easy when you use your imagination... Sigh, I fear they'll never do it. > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ > |Mark D. Stock - The West Solutions Group http://www.west.co.za | > | The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org | > |mailto:marks@west.co.za +-----------------------------------------+ > |Tel: +27 11 803 2151 |If it doesn't work, force it! | > |Fax: +27 11 803 2189 |If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway!| > |Cell: +27 83 250 2325 |Well, that's how I code anyway! | > +------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ Ze master plan I had sent to Informix is in my latest ezine, located at www.inxutil.com. Unfortunately the folks at the internic still haven't propagated the IP address, but you can still get there with your browser by typing in the IP: http://207.69.204.52 -- Tim Schaefer \\\\|// tschaefe@mindspring.com (6 6) ------------------------oOOo---( )---o00o--------- http://www.mindspring.com/~tschaefe http://www.inxutil.com ( 207.69.204.52 )