Re: No more upgrades for SCO 3.2.4.2???

In <3u416p$4iv@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> alastl@ix.netcom.com (John Prideaux) writes: > >We have Informix RDS version 6.01.ud3 and SE version 7.10.uc1 running >on SCO Open Server Network 3.0 (effectively SCO v3.2.4.2--the latest >release until last May). After personally working to identify 5 bugs >and encountering 2 other ones in the last 60 days, I have been informed >(by a tech support engineer) that the 6.02 release will only be ported >to SCO 3.2.5.0 (Open Server Release 5.0). If this is true (and my >information appears to be correct), then I am being forced to upgrade >to a major new release of an operating system within 2 months of its >release. Having just gone through a major system change, I cannot >afford the probable instability of a major new release of our OS. My >alternative is to try to coax Informix into providing patches for the 7 >bugs I need fixed. Why is my hand being forced like this? > I have received an answer from Informix which places the blame squarely on SCO's doorstep. It seems that the OS vendors pay the database vendors to port to specific platforms and that SCO has decided not to pay Informix to port the 6.02 tools to v3.2.4.2. I don't know about the rest of you, but this seems odd behavior for a company which is still concerned about maintaining Xenix compatibility. Come on, SCO. Once Open Server 5.0 is proved stable, I will gladly upgrade to it. In the mean time, please let me maintain a stable environment. My users heads are already swimming because of the changes we recently had to go through when Wyse announced that they were dropping support for the OS on their 9000i model. John Prideaux alastl@ix.netcom.com