Re: Informix running on Linux

In article <EAw4LK.12o@roan.co.uk>, Mike Jagdis <mike@roan.co.uk> wrote: >Doug McAllister said > >>The overhead for Informix to do a port to any platform and then to >>maintain it is about the same regardless of whether it is for Linux, >>Solaris, or what-have-you. > >If there is significant overhead in porting standard C using >POSIX/Single UNIX Spec interfaces then they need to attend to >their code base anyway... Pish-tosh. The actual *build* takes only a small fraction of the overall time -- it's the *testing* and certification (and, in some cases, media manufacture or install packaging) that takes the vast majority of the time. You *do* want the product TESTED, don't you? >Rubbish! I know a *lot* of people that *bought* WordPerfect for >SCO so they could run it on Linux. I know a *lot* of people that >*bought* Informix for SCO so they could run their apps on Linux. >As one MD of a *very* large firm said to me, "Linux is faster >than SCO, cheaper than SCO, easier to support than SCO and >runs SCO apps. Why should I buy SCO?" > > His one beef was that Informix couldn't or wouldn't provide >development tools under Linux. Thus he was moving away from *Informix*. I don't understand -- I thought you just said the SCO products ran fine under Linux... what is different about the development tools? -- Alan Denney yosemite@netcom.com "Lawyers use numbers like a drunk uses a lamppost: for *support*, rather than *illumination*." -- J. Peter Grace