Re: Is there any Linux version of Informix?
Posted in 1996
In article <319645AA.19B0@insider.regio.net> Garry Glendown <garry@insider.regio.net> writes: >Andrej Falout wrote: >> >> I am interested in Informix DB recently. I hope to install Informix >> >> on my PC. Would you tell me is there any Linux version of Informix? >> >No, there is no linux version. But you can use the SCO version with the >> >iBCS2 emulator. >> Please elaborate; instalation method, OnLine version, speed, I-Net > >Installation - as always (informix, that is). Get a copy of the iBCS-archives, >plus libraries for SCO-compatibility, compile, insmod. That should be it. At >our company, we've switched to Linux as OS on our PC developing machine over two >years ago ... better system performance under load (compared to the SVR4-Unix >"Generics"), better memory usage, ... Informix itself seemed to be as fast or >faster as before (though I didn't measure performance as such). Also, we did >not try Online, but it should work ... I-net we don't have, so no info from >us there, either. Would anyone care to offer an opinion/considerations on whether this is legal from the Informix perspective or the SCO perspective? Scott