Re: Release 5.0 Information (Help!)

Posted in 1992

Colonel Panic — 3 Apr 92 03:08:38 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <1049@cwi.UUCP> tony@cwi.UUCP (Tony Chang ) writes: > >Greetings netters, > >Are there any Informix 5.0 users out there who are willing to share >their experiences about the product? > >Informix rep told us that there are not a whole lot of their current >customers jump on the 5.0 release yet and recommended us to use 4.1 >for our software. What's holding up the conversion process? Are there Probably, the main reasons are 1) general industry reluctance to be the first on any new major release of any software, and 2) 5.0 is shipping on only a few platforms so far: Sun (uniprocessor) Sparc (SunOS 4.1.1), H.P. 9000/8xx (HP/UX 8.0), and AT&T StarServer (SVR4 R2.1). Numerous other ports are in progress, a few are just about done. >unusual things to watch out for? > >Thanks in advance! Please reply to tony@cwi.com > >tony@cwi.com -- Alan Denney aland@informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland "This song is a traditional bluegrass number, in the sense that it's about dead ancestors." - The Austin Lounge Lizards (live, introducing "Grandpa's Hologram")