Re: Informix vs Oracle, Sybase +...

Ruiming Chen wrote: > > Andrew Singer wrote: > > > 3) What's the best operating system to run all this stuff on: Windows > > NT, Linux, Solaris, others? > > All are the same. Sybase and Informix original were developed in UNIX box. I > haven't heard > Informix can runs in NT yet. The Linux version from those are not full power > as commercial > version. Are you inferring that Informix DB servers aren't available for NT? What about IDS for NT, or IDS-DE or IDS-WE or IDS-PE (Windows 95/98)? These 'editions' as with IDS-LE tend to be as 'full power' as the OS allows. Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ | Mark D. Stock http://www.informix.com |//////// /| | mailto:mdstock@mydas.freeserve.co.uk |///// / //| | http://www.iiug.org +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | |What year 2000 bug? year 2000 bug? |/// / ////| | |year 2000 bug? year 2000 bug? year |// / /////| | |2000 bug? year 2000 bug? year 1900 |/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+

For my two cents I've found Informix on NT to be buggy, for example continous log backups with onbar don't appear to work properly with 7.31TC2 and the page cleaners didn't wake up properly with 7.30TCx. The high performance loader also seems to have problems loading very short records. I've used Oracle quite a lot, and it also has it's faults. One early release on NT I was supporting didn't support logging of the database "Mark D. Stock" wrote: > Ruiming Chen wrote: > > > > Andrew Singer wrote: > > > > > 3) What's the best operating system to run all this stuff on: Windows > > > NT, Linux, Solaris, others? > > > > All are the same. Sybase and Informix original were developed in UNIX box. I > > haven't heard > > Informix can runs in NT yet. The Linux version from those are not full power > > as commercial > > version. > > Are you inferring that Informix DB servers aren't available for NT? What > about IDS for NT, or IDS-DE or IDS-WE or IDS-PE (Windows 95/98)? These > 'editions' as with IDS-LE tend to be as 'full power' as the OS allows. > > Cheers, > -- > Mark. > > +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ > | Mark D. Stock http://www.informix.com |//////// /| > | mailto:mdstock@mydas.freeserve.co.uk |///// / //| > | http://www.iiug.org +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| > | |What year 2000 bug? year 2000 bug? |/// / ////| > | |year 2000 bug? year 2000 bug? year |// / /////| > | |2000 bug? year 2000 bug? year 1900 |/ ////////| > +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+

Jay, In your other post, specifically mentioning your onbar problems, you noted that you are using SP5. The TC2 release is not certified for NT versions past SP3. For SP4 and SP5 you need TC7 or later. This may be most of your trouble. I post here instead of replying to the other post to clear up any confusion. Art S. Kagel Jay Walters wrote: > > For my two cents I've found Informix on NT to be buggy, for example continous log > backups with onbar don't appear to work properly with 7.31TC2 and the page > cleaners didn't wake up properly with 7.30TCx. The high performance loader also > seems to have problems loading very short records. > > I've used Oracle quite a lot, and it also has it's faults. One early release on > NT I was supporting didn't support logging of the database > > "Mark D. Stock" wrote: > > > Ruiming Chen wrote: > > > > > > Andrew Singer wrote: > > > > > > > 3) What's the best operating system to run all this stuff on: Windows > > > > NT, Linux, Solaris, others? > > > > > > All are the same. Sybase and Informix original were developed in UNIX box. I > > > haven't heard > > > Informix can runs in NT yet. The Linux version from those are not full power > > > as commercial > > > version. > > > > Are you inferring that Informix DB servers aren't available for NT? What > > about IDS for NT, or IDS-DE or IDS-WE or IDS-PE (Windows 95/98)? These > > 'editions' as with IDS-LE tend to be as 'full power' as the OS allows. > > > > Cheers, > > -- > > Mark. > > > > +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ > > | Mark D. Stock http://www.informix.com |//////// /| > > | mailto:mdstock@mydas.freeserve.co.uk |///// / //| > > | http://www.iiug.org +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| > > | |What year 2000 bug? year 2000 bug? |/// / ////| > > | |year 2000 bug? year 2000 bug? year |// / /////| > > | |2000 bug? year 2000 bug? year 1900 |/ ////////| > > +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+