Re: Is Informix being ported to Linux?

p44020@sherpa9.st.statoil.no (Paal Thingboe) wrote: :I am a consultant for several medium to large sized businesses in Norway. : :Many of our customers are now asking what software can run on Linux. Especially :because many of them are setting up SQL servers to be used with the WEB :and for applications like SAP R/3. : :What can I tell them? The alternative for many of the medium-sized ones, is :to run MS SQL Server, which doesn't work at all, but is very cheap. : :-- :Paal Thingbo There have recently been at least three very long threads about Informix on Linux in this news group. You should be able to find them via a search on http://www.dejanews.com We are all trying to get Informix to do an official port of their products to Linux. You are not alone to have seen this demand. In the meantime there are a lot of users who do run the SCO ports of several Informix products with great success on Linux. There is a description in the FAQ (see my signature) of how to do that. You might also want to check out http://www.linux-magazin.de/ edition 02/97 title: "Interview des Monats Autovermieter Sixt" for a description of a very successfull large scale and mission critical use of Informix products on Linux by the Sixt/Budget car rental company in Germany. If you don't read german I posted a translation of the essential parts of this in one of the Linux threads on may 4th. You should also contact Informix in Norway just to state your interest so they get some more pressure to do official ports. Also please call me on the phone (22 05 30 00). I would like to talk to you about these and other issues. Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org