Re: Informix running on Linux

Tom Schaefer wrote: > > Have any of you got Informix running on Linux? > > If so, is there a FAQ, web site, 'Linux HOWTO' available for this? I > can't seem to find anything at all about this ... > > If not, and it cannot be done, is there a technical reason or is it > because of some "we don't support Linux" policy that Informix has? > > (I imagine the latter is the case) > > There is a big opportunity here for Informix if they did start > supporting it ... even if they settled on a particular Linux > distribution ... they could even make their own distribution and own > the os AND the database ... they could tune the kernel which ever way > they wanted cuz they'd have the source code for the os! > > -tks- >I have installed the newest linux version on a 486dx and taken a standard cpio dump of informix sql/4gl from a unix system and installed under linux with no problem. I am still testing but apparently everything is running fine. > > >