Re: still several problems with Red Hat Linux 9

Posted in 2003

Mark D. Stock — Thu, 02 Oct 2003 14:41:38 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Ronald Cole wrote: > John Carlson <john_carlson@whsmithusa.com> writes: > >>But I thought that IBM's strategy was to support a given kernel / >>glibc version level, not a given distribution. > > I'm sure it was... five months ago... before NPTL and thread-local > variables in glibc monkey-wrenched them. <SNIP> > An alternative to throwing good money after bad is to recode my apps > in Java so that my business and my client's won't be held hostage to > IBM's lethargic 4GL tools on Linux support. What about using other 4GL compilers? Like Querix & 4Js... Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ | Mark D. Stock mailto:mdstock@MydasSolutions.com |//////// /| | Mydas Solutions Ltd http://MydasSolutions.com |///// / //| | +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | |We value your comments, which have |/// / ////| | |been recorded and automatically |// / /////| | |emailed back to us for our records.|/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+ sending to informix-list