Re: Need info on running Informix on Dell O/S

Path: emory!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!pyrnj!pyramid!infmx!aland From: aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Message-ID: <1991Nov16.234011.9677@informix.com> Date: 16 Nov 91 23:40:11 GMT References: <1991Nov15.202308.7268@hellgate.utah.edu> Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News) Organization: International Brotherhood of Geeks, Local 619 In article <1991Nov15.202308.7268@hellgate.utah.edu> cdoe%fuggles.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Carlton Doe) writes: >I am about to purchase a 50 mHz Dell 486 box and want to use their port of >System V R 4. That box is on hold, by the way, until Intel re-certifies the 50 MHz 486DX. >I called Informix to see if they had a Dell port for 4GL & SQL; they didn't. >They did say however that they had a V 4 port for Compaq, Interactive, and >AT&T. Hmmm... not quite. What we have is a port to the AT&T 6386 (also works for Starserver) using AT&T SVR4. "Compaq" is a machine designation; ports for Interactive and SCO are listed under Compaq as a hardware type, because that's what it's certified on. >My question is, what differences could there be in the different ports and >shouldn't I be able to run any of the V 4 Informix ports on the Dell port >of the O/S? In *THEORY*, yes. HOWEVER, if we haven't tested it, we can't support it on other O/Ses. We don't have Dell SVR4 (or Interactive/Intel SVR4 or UHC or Microport or ESIX, for that matter) in-house to test with. (if a Dell reader wants to throw me a full O/S set, drop me some email [-:). Compatiblity is a sore subject. For example, we've tried to standardize on a single base port for 386 UNIXes (ISC, SCO, AT&T). The ISC-ported products passed compatibility easily on AT&T but failed on SCO (on SCO, random core files were produced for no apparent reason. ick.) The only place I'd *expect* incompatibilities is networking, as AT&T's SVR4 has the StarGroup stuff. (By the way, if anybody is getting the AT&T 6386 SVR4 ports of the 4.10 products, watch out; there was an erroneous assumption that libnet.a was bundled with the base O/S, and the compiled products now depend upon it. If you don't have the networking package installed, you won't be able to use compiled 4GL or ESQL/C. A re-port of this is being scheduled.) I recently bought a personal copy of Consensys SVR4, with which I'll do some experimenting with the AT&T SVR4 port on my own... >I asked these questions of my Informix sales rep who replied he'ld check >into it but I'd like to get an answer before the year 2010 rolls around. >If anyone out there is running Informix on Dell O/S or has any info pro/con >on the idea, your e-mail would be appreciated. I've been lobbying for Dell et al ports/ formal compatibility tests for the past couple weeks; any lobbying you can do as customers may help... >Carlton Doe -- Alan Denney aland@informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland J.F.K. to Kruschev: "I'll leave Castro alone If you'll take away those missiles; they're too damn close to home." The CIA, the Cubans, and the underworld bosses Was (not Was) Decided that was it; they had to cut their losses... "11 Miles Per Hour"