Re: Informix and Linux opinions/who is running production

Well, we're running multiple data bases with hundreds of users on Sun servers with Solaris 8 -- the data bases, 7.x and 9.x, average from 500G up to a couple terrabytes in size. Things work just fine, thank you very much (and have for years), few problems, easy fixes. Given that IBM is throwing lots of money and expertise -- don't sell them short, but I do wonder if they've actually changed their spots -- at Linux, I'd be inclined to take a hard look at whether they can do what you need to do. I've no problem with Linux (I use it at home and manage a couple of fairly large Informix data bases) and think there's a good chance that Big Blue might actually be serious. The newly released kernel advertises support for large numbers of processors and large disk arrays and all of the goodies you need to get serious, but I'd want a box to play with before I made any commitments one way or the other. SunFire servers are big iron and they are stable in my experience (and Sun, despite speculation to the contrary, isn't going away anytime soon). 'Course, Blue isn't going anyplace either. I'm more worried about Informix going away and having to convert to DB2 (ugh!) or, worse, Oracle (not a good thing in my experience). Informix, in my experience, is stable and reliable on Sun hardware. Informix on Linux is also stable in my (limited) experience -- I whack away at it and haven't been able to break it, but I've only got a couple of 10G data bases with only one user so don't go by that. Get a Blue evaluation box, put your stuff on it, see what happens. Gary Quiring wrote: >I would like to know if we have any shops out here running IDS 9.x on >Linux in a production environment where you have at least 300+ users >connected at one time. We had a visit from our Informix var today and >they are trying to convince me that Linux on IBM hardware is more >stable than Solaris on Sun hardware. I want the real story from shops >that know.... > >Thanks >Gary Quiring > > > >