Re: Informix running on Linux

In article <335F0B33.D712D8DF@mindspring.com>, Tim Schaefer <tschaefe@mindspring.com> writes >Besides if you really want to sell Universal Server, let go of 7.x. No - 7.x handlesd purely relational data very well - Universal Server will almost certainly be slower than Univseral Server because the size of the working set of each function will be larger as there will be if (relational data) ..... else ..... endif somewhere in the code (or a case <database> statement) which will result in some functions getting larger i.e. running slower. I think they should a) dump SE it's outdated b) stop porting Online 5.x and dump it Move everyone to at least OWS and DSA. Use the money from moving everyone to DSA and the savings from not having to support SE/5.x products to fund Universal Server and XPS. Evetually (when hardware has gone a generation) move everyone to Universal Server and all 'big' sites to XPS (another generation of hardware should be most large sites run >10 CPUS). >If you have more people using 7.x, they can migrate their experience to >Universal Server, thus more momentum in the market. Who knows, if 7.x >were on Linux, some of the Linux community might build some really >cool tools for it. They're a busy bunch... > Treu - I have starting writing my tools to analyses sqexplain.outs and I'm also looks putting together sql to run against sysmaster for my ondiags (Online Diagnostics) tools. >Cheers, > >Tim > -- David Williams