Re: Informix-Online under Linux

My friend wrote me 2 or 3 days ago that he made Informix-Online 7.1 (SCO 3.2 version) operational under RedHat 4.0 with last iBCS and using SCO's locale descriptions & libraries. I don't saw him yet so I cannot explain full details, but: Connect through: onipcshm (dbaccess client) dbspace: file system Now he tunes system to connect through ontlitcp Mike Segel wrote in message <356C1E46.C3046609@segel.NOSPAM-.KING.OF.MYDOMAIN.-NOSPAM.com>... >Andreas Zeugswetter wrote: >> >> 1. Nobody using linux would ever (without physical threat) switch to NT >> as a server >> 2. Nobody wanting at least a little flexibility on the choice of >> platform would ever >> use MS SQL >> 3. MS SQL will be very poor compared to Informix with >> a) many concurrent users >> or b) large databases >> >> In general I think the advice is a rather bad one. >> >> Andreas Zeugswetter > >Yes, but at least Informix has ported to NT, as well as to Win 95. ;-) >Sorry I couldn't resist. Maybe that's why Informix's stock price is >in the crapper. They choose their porting platforms incorrectly? If you want to have single-user server then you can use WinNT. I have such experience and prefer Unix anyway - even for personal use. > >7.5 Million people can't be wrong. It's only small part of a whole programming community > >-Mikey >-- Leonid