Re: How To: Informix Online on PC-UNIX

"Reiner Kunz" <Reiner.Kunz@pr-kunz2.M.eunet.de> wrote: :Hi Online fans, : :at work, I'm using Informix Online 7.x on an HP/UX server. For testing :purposes I want to buy a PC-UNIX and an Informix Online version for this :PC-UNIX which behaves like the "big" HP/UX installation. What PC-UNIX and :what Online version do I need? Are there any major drawbacks? Who did this :approach for emulating a real UNIX installation on a PC-UNIX system? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ We are running "real" Unix from SCO on PC hardware to "emulate" the behaviour of "unreal" Unix and gain better price/performance :-))) To be more serious: You can install SCO Unix 5.0.2 on your PC. This is available for free for home use or limited testing purposes. For continued professional use you have to pay for it of course. For testing you can also get a trial version of Informix OnLine for this platform. It's the same Informix OnLine 7.x you allready have, just ported for SCO 5.0.x Alternatively you can also use Unixware from SCO or Solaris x86 from Sun with an appropriate version of OnLine. Someone very reasantly also annonced he had been able to install OnLine ver. 7.something on some version of Linux. (Check dejanews to find that posting if you didn't see it.) Just for your information on the development of Unix: The next generation OS (64 bit version) from HP is beeing developed in cooperation with SCO - the major PC Unix supplier. "Real" Unix? Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org