Informix on Solaris/Intel

We are running on this platform. Solaris for Intel is one of Informix's lowest priority operating platforms. They definitely do not port every release to this o/s. We are running on 5.06. They also have a port for 7.20. We are planning to upgrade to 7.xx, but did not want 7.20 because of a fear of too many bugs. In defense of Informix, they have treated us nicely. They are doing a special port just for us to 7.23, that should be ready soon. Haven't had any problems with stability on 5.06. We do have one issue with istar - cannot connect from a 5.06 database to any of the 7.xx databases we have on any of a number of platforms. We also have 5.06 running on NCR 3445's ( 5.4 release 2.03 ) and have no problem connecting to our 7.xx engines with them. Mike Ballentine --------------------------( Forwarded letter 1 follows )--------------------- Date: Monday, 22 September 1997 7:35pm X-Sender: rflanner@speedlink.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 11:37:44 -0500 To: informix-list@rmy.emory.edu From: rflanner@speedlink.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: informix-list-owner@rmy.emory.edu Reply-To: "Ron M. Flannery" <rflanner@speedlink.net> X-Informix-List-Id: <list.16567> One of our clients is considering porting their Informix apps to an Intel-based server running Solaris. Currently the client is using Online 5.00.UD6 on SCO. I wanted to know if anyone had experience using Informix/Solaris on an Intel box. Some questions are: - How stable is it? - Does Informix support all the same releases on Intel-based Solaris? Do they support the 5.x line should we choose not to move to ODS 7.x? - How is the porting schedule? Does keep up to that of Solaris on Sun hardware? Thanks, Ron Ron Flannery | President, rflanner@one-point.com | Michigan Informix User Group President, One Point Solutions| http://www.zenacomp.com/miug/ http://www.one-point.com voice=248.887.8470