Re: Informix running on Linux

As far as running Informix on linux is concerned, I am not surprised that Informix have not ported to it. One good reason for not doing so is the way linux is supported. Until recently this was largely achieved by talented part-timers with enough enthusiasm to dig into problems. If you run into a problem, you can generally be assured that someone, sometime will solve it. All you have to do is wait. Even some businesses are prepared to work with software maintained in this way. Compare this to the relationship that informix undoubtedly have with the likes of HP and Sun. I would be surprised if their partnerships do not include some sort of service level agreements over OS bug resolution. This is probably an essential ingredient in the effort to maintain service to customers. If it were my company, I would probably not be too keen to port to linux either. No doubt I am in for an ear bending here. Mark MarkDenham@aol.com (home) Denham.M@amstr.com (work) --------------------------( Forwarded letter 1 follows )--------------------- Date: Wednesday, 28 May 1997 10:22am Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 09:26:47 -0700 From: johnl@informix.com (Jonathan Leffler) To: informix-list@rmy.emory.edu, mike@roan.co.uk Subject: Re: Informix running on Linux Sender: informix-list-owner@rmy.emory.edu Reply-To: johnl@informix.com X-Informix-List-Id: <list.14678> }From: Mike Jagdis <mike@roan.co.uk> }Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 12:12:56 GMT }X-Informix-List-Id: <news.38442> } }Doug McAllister said } }>The overhead for Informix to do a port to any platform and then to }>maintain it is about the same regardless of whether it is for Linux, }>Solaris, or what-have-you. } }If there is significant overhead in porting standard C using }POSIX/Single UNIX Spec interfaces then they need to attend to }their code base anyway... Well, there are pieces of code that would benefit from being cleaned up, but in case you've not looked at the POSIX.1:1996 standard, it does not mention shared memory or semaphores, nor any of the networking system calls, nor ... In other words, although POSIX is a fine standard, it is not sufficient for handling OnLine. }If they feel there is functionality missing from Linux that they *need* }then they could start by actually telling someone what it is *specifically*. I agree. }[...] Yours, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h>