Re: What if XPS (or IDS) goes open source...?
Christine Normile wrote: > And we were the First commercial dataserver to support 64-bit Linux. Well, Informix was the first commercial database vendor to port to Linux at all, eons before Oracle, Sybase, DB2 and the rest, and this after a year long valiant effort of two handful of visionaries who would call themselves the IIUG Informix on Linux committee: Art, Billy, Nils, David, among others, under the (not so) expert leadership of Tim first and yours truly later, and the auspices of a few other Informix employees who mostly acted behind the scenes (you know who you are). I remember Oracle frantically announcing that they would port to Linux the day before the opening day of the Informix User Conference in 98 - the next day a thousand CDs with SE 7.24 for Caldera and Suse were being freely distributed Ah! Those where the days... > > > > Christine Normile > christinenormile@mac.com <mailto:christinenormile@mac.com> > > > > On Sep 20, 2006, at 10:00 AM, Serge Rielau wrote: > >> Jean Sagi wrote: >> >>> Reading this: >>> >>> *iTWire: Teradata Goes Open Source* >>> http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2006-09-20-007-26-NW-DP-NV >>> >>> I wonder if XPS and/or IDS goes open source... it would be nice in my >>> personal opinion. >>> >> IDS already has "gone open source". >> If you check out the ticker blurp it says nothing other than that >> Teradata is supporting Linux. It does not say that Teradata is open >> source. >> >> Cheers >> Serge >> -- >> Serge Rielau >> DB2 Solutions Development >> IBM Toronto Lab >> >> IOD Conference >> http://www.ibm.com/software/data/ondemandbusiness/conf2006/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Informix-list mailing list >> Informix-list@iiug.org <mailto:Informix-list@iiug.org> >> http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list -- Ciao, Marco ______________________________________________________________________________ Marco Greco /UK /IBM Standard disclaimers apply! Structured Query Scripting Language http://www.4glworks.com/sqsl.htm 4glworks http://www.4glworks.com Informix on Linux http://www.4glworks.com/ifmxlinux.htm
Technically speaking... ;-) It was actually Interbase who ported ahead of Informix. The marketing manager was looking for a hook, and ported it way way way ahead of Informix. It was decided upon with 1 email of chat about "if it's a good idea or not?". Unfortunately it really didn't matter, either for Informix or Interbase. Sybase actually took the ball early on after Informix, with their 11.9x release on Linux with even a free-for-production-use license. I think Caldera had their hand in the Sybase deal... As you say... those where the days... Now MySQL owns Informix's ISAM space on Linux... c'est la vie... Marco Greco wrote: > Christine Normile wrote: >> And we were the First commercial dataserver to support 64-bit Linux. > > Well, Informix was the first commercial database vendor to port to Linux > at all, eons before Oracle, Sybase, DB2 and the rest, and this after a > year long valiant effort of two handful of visionaries who would call > themselves the IIUG Informix on Linux committee: Art, Billy, Nils, > David, among others, under the (not so) expert leadership of Tim first > and yours truly later, and the auspices of a few other Informix > employees who mostly acted behind the scenes (you know who you are). > I remember Oracle frantically announcing that they would port to Linux > the day before the opening day of the Informix User Conference in 98 - > the next day a thousand CDs with SE 7.24 for Caldera and Suse were being > freely distributed > > Ah! Those where the days... > >> >> >> >> Christine Normile >> christinenormile@mac.com <mailto:christinenormile@mac.com> >> >> >> >> On Sep 20, 2006, at 10:00 AM, Serge Rielau wrote: >> >>> Jean Sagi wrote: >>> >>>> Reading this: >>>> >>>> *iTWire: Teradata Goes Open Source* >>>> http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2006-09-20-007-26-NW-DP-NV >>>> >>>> >>>> I wonder if XPS and/or IDS goes open source... it would be nice in >>>> my personal opinion. >>>> >>> IDS already has "gone open source". >>> If you check out the ticker blurp it says nothing other than that >>> Teradata is supporting Linux. It does not say that Teradata is open >>> source. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Serge >>> -- >>> Serge Rielau >>> DB2 Solutions Development >>> IBM Toronto Lab >>> >>> IOD Conference >>> http://www.ibm.com/software/data/ondemandbusiness/conf2006/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Informix-list mailing list >>> Informix-list@iiug.org <mailto:Informix-list@iiug.org> >>> http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Informix-list mailing list >> Informix-list@iiug.org >> http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > > >