Re: Online Extended Edition for Linux

rkusenet wrote: > "Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrot: >>I'm preparing a quote for a customer under Passport Advantage. >> >>They want a price for Online 5. The cost for 25 users is about '15k (part >>number D6DHNLL). But there is an "Online extended edition for Linux" >>(D51ZILL) at one-thord of the price. Sounds ideal, as my client wants to >>move to Linux. Does anyone know what this product is? Is it a special >>promotion for Linux? if so, it's not mentioned on the website. > > it is Online 5.20. It has some limitations of 5.10 removed. Most notably > the 2GB limitation of chunk size. Actually, not the size - that's still 2 GB. However, you can specify a chunk offset that is bigger than 2 GB, so you can create a series of chunks, each of size 2 GB, in a single disk. The other big difference is that I-Star comes with the product and is not a separate purchase. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2003.04 -- http://dbi.perl.org/