Re: Informix running on Linux

Klaus Lichtenwalder wrote: > > ogj@tglobe3.tollpost.no ('yvind Gjerstad) writes: > > > > > tks@netd.fastrans.net (Tom Schaefer) writes: > > > > > There is a big opportunity here for Informix if they did start > > > supporting it ... even if they settled on a particular Linux > > > distribution ... they could even make their own distribution and own > > > the os AND the database ... they could tune the kernel which ever way > > > they wanted cuz they'd have the source code for the os! > > > > If Informix are interested in volumes, they should certainly do a Linux port. > > The OS is very stable and efficient, so I'm sure it would perform well. > > > > Commercial quality relational databases is something really missing in > > the Linux community, so if the price is reasonable Informix could easily > > sell lots of licences here. Or maybe they could just make it a unsupported > > version like Netscape have done. Come on, Informix! Let's have a native Linux > > port! The installed base is bigger than any other Unix vendor. > > While I'd be interested in a native Linux port, too (we do db > developing with Informix under AIX), Empress is offering their > database systems for Linux. Empress is (seems to?) steadily growing > and might becoma a real competitor... Look at Adabas D for Linux (Personal Edition at http://www.sag.de) > > Klaus > > -- > ________________________________________________________________________> Klaus Lichtenwalder, Dipl. Inform., PGP Key: email to key@Four11.com > Lichtenwalder@ACM.org, http://www.wp.com/Klaus, fax: +49-89-91072699 > Need a (virtual) vacation? Go check: http://www.bavaria.com > Unsolicited e-mail advertising and spam will not be tolerated -- Klaus Gotthardt email: K.Gotthardt@em.uni-frankfurt.de home : http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~gotthard