Re: Want to buy informix for SCO UNIX

Jason, Wish granted <sort of>... Informix has announced a scaled back version of OnLine to be known as OnLine Workgroup Server. For $199 a user, it's a version of OnLine which supports everything except for the very high-end features (multiple processors, data replication among others). The problem is, of course, that Informix still won't port a version to Linux. This is because, (as the story goes) Linux is an OS which is unsupported by anyone. But, I've recently heard that some commercial organization (sorry, I don't know who) will be offering Linux support for a price. Personally, I'm not interested in such a service, but perhaps it will be enough to convince Informix that Linux deserves a port all its own! Of course, this still doesn't address NewEra, 4GL, etc. But, it may be a step in the right direction. --Craig (craig@chemistry.utah.edu) } } > Here's a marketing opportunity, Informix. I also would like to buy Informix } > for Linux at a price that I, as a private individual, can afford. Some time } > ago Informix wrote to me at work announcing that certain products (I think it } > was 4.x engines and x.10 tools were being "retired" (whatever that means). } > How about getting together with one of the Linux CD-ROM vendors and putting } > together a package with a retired SE engine. It could, perhaps, be slightly } > crippled so that it would only support 8 engines (4 x developers running } > [ir]4gl and an application under test or 4 users with menus and an } > application) whilst it would only be allowed to add rows above a certain limit } > if only two engines were running (single user with menu and application. } > } > The ability to run 4 users with small databases would make it a good product } > for training whilst allowing a single user to use a large database would } > support the private user who wanted to catalogue his stamp collection or } > whatever. } > } > The cheap training platform could be a real long term advantage. People go } > out to buy what they trained on, that's what made Unix and, I suspect, the } > Internet, so popular. } } Forget it!! Informix is so messed up they wouldn't do that! They can't see } their noses in front of their faces.. That would be to good of an Idea } for them to try! I all ready attempted to talk to them about it and they } blasted me. } } It's no biggie, their are some nice DB packages that are all the bit as } good as Informix for less that are available for Linux, Now! The prices } start at around $199 (or less) for a personal (unlimited users) } developement system.. Not, to mention their are some very nice Public } Domain package that are available. } } > I can get a free 90-day time-bombed version of Oracle Objects on a CD-ROM from } > the front of a magazine! When the 90 days runs out I'll know Oracle Objects } > for free but I won't know New Era without spending serious money. If someone } > came along and asked me what platform I could develop an o-o database } > application on what would I answer ....? } } Man, that choice is an easy one, I would go with the guy that is willing } to support the developer. }