Re: Antique upgrade

Posted in 2004

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9rgio_Ferreira?= — Sat, 06 Mar 2004 20:18:27 +0000 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Are you talking about Informix without SQL ?. The one that have informer as query language, perform to make forms, ace to reports and all2 C API ? > I appear to have become responsible for an antique Informix 2.0 system >running on a xenix 386 box, with a 150MB hard disk, and no backup. > > While I have some knowledge of DBMS systems, and if I can re-activate >those brain cells I can manage to deal with Xenix, I would like to move >this whole mess to more modern hardware atleast. The whole system has >outrun its MTBF by orders of magnitude. > > I am compitent with Linux, and I see that Informix is available for Linux. > > This is a an ancilliary responsibility, but one that will be a big >problem when things start to fail. > > So my question is can Informix 2 applications and databases be easily >upgraded to a more modern incarnation of Informix, or do I should I just >try to build a more modern box for Xenix to run on ? > > > sending to informix-list