Re: Informix for SVR4

In article <296@praeda.UUCP.UUCP> tlee@praeda.UUCP.UUCP (Terry Lee) writes: >Is anyone out there using Informix products on a vanilla SVR4 for intel >PC's .... ei. dell, esix or microport? > >If so, what o/s and informix products? Any problems? > >Several dicussions with Informix sales and tech support have turned up >nothing useful in this regard. The party line seems to be that the >ATT SVR4 r 2.1 & 3.0 ports for the Star Server and 6386 should run, but >Informix will not recommend or support it! The "party line", in this case, is correct. The only platform that port has been tested on is AT&T SVR4 R2.1 on the 6386 or StarServer. The only problem I've encountered on others is that the 5.0 products (the original acceptance port; there has since been a new 5.0 port that I haven't tried) wouldn't install on Consensys 1.2 (SVR4 R3.0), seemingly due to a botch in how the pkgadm stuff was set up that AT&T SVR4 R2.1 didn't mind. Whether that problem would exist on other SVR4 3.0 variants, I don't know. Whether it was resolved in the later port, I also don't know (but I doubt it). 4.1 products were OK (in my limited testing), as they didn't use pkgadm at that time. >I guess maybe someone on the net (possibly an Informix employee) may have >some first hand knowledge? > >Thanks in advance! I've repeatedly lobbied for support for some of the others (especially Dell SVR4), but I'm always told that "the market isn't asking for it". So, be sure to tell your sales critter that you exist! [-: My own opinions, etc. etc. Followups to comp.databases.informix. -- Alan Denney aland@informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland "I'm tough! When my girlfriend tells me that she doesn't want to see me anymore, I just poke her in the eyes!" "I'm tough! I'm into Punk Yoga. That's where you stand on *somebody else's* head." "I'm so tough, when I go down to the beach, I kick sand in my *own* face!" -- George Smilovich