Probably a dumb question but...
Everett Mills asked whether IBM might port IDS to Mac OS, since Apple was moving to Intel and Mac OS is Unix-based. S7Solutions said porting from Linux should be easy. scottishpoet said enough revenue would make it happen. Clive Eisen joked about the cost, and Richard Harnden said an ESQL/C port to OS X and BSD would be nice. No answer from IBM.
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Guys (particularly IBMers)- Since Apple is porting its OS to Intel processors and since Mac OS is really just a GUI sitting on top of UNIX... It shouldn't be much of a stretch to take the Linux port of IDS and create a Mac port. Is there a snowball's chance in Hades that IBM would do it? It would open up a whole new server environment for a minimal investment. --EEM > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Watson [mailto:paul@oninit.com] > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 10:48 AM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: IDS cluster > > Dirk Moolman wrote: > > > My company is talking about moving IDS on SUN, to IDS on Linux - and > > also clustering the servers. > > > > The only failover I know (on the Informix side), is ER and HDR. Is > > clustering possible on Linux ? > > > > > > (they mentioned having 2 DB servers and 2 application servers acting as > > failover etc. for each other) > > > > Got a client running Suse Linux without a problem on HP hardware and > the HP clustering software > Paul Watson > Oninit Ltd > Tel : +44 1414161772 > Cell : +44 7818 003457 > Web : www.oninit.com > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list
Should be pretty easy. In fact we ported few applications [some easy ones and some complicated ones] and pretty easy to make it work on Max OS from Linux - of course we have few big hurdles but after that it is pretty smooth to. Manju S7 Software Solutions "Redefining Cross-Platform Porting, Migration & Development"
Usually find that money talks Bring a large enough amount of revenue to IBM dependant on the port being available and its likely it would happen. I wouldn't know what "large enough" was
scottishpoet wrote: > Usually find that money talks > > Bring a large enough amount of revenue to IBM dependant on the port > being available and its likely it would happen. I wouldn't know what > "large enough" was > 15% > your budget.
Everett Mills wrote: > Guys (particularly IBMers)- > Since Apple is porting its OS to Intel processors and since Mac > OS is really just a GUI sitting on top of UNIX... It shouldn't be much > of a stretch to take the Linux port of IDS and create a Mac port. Is > there a snowball's chance in Hades that IBM would do it? It would open > up a whole new server environment for a minimal investment. > It would make sense for a database product to run on Darwin ;) A FreeBSD/NetBSD, OS X port of esql/c would be nice.