RE: IDS 7 on Solaris vs. Linux

This will probably be a personal choice (and many people will disagree with me) My experience is on Solaris, and not on Linux, even though we are busy migrating to SUSE, getting rid of our Solaris systems. Because of my experience level, Solaris is a much better choice for me - much more stable. I install Solaris and it runs. Not being a pro on Linux, I do not prefer Linux. So far we've had lots of problems on Linux - mainly bugs, and Linux not being stable. I spend too much time setting up Linux and making sure it is stable. But, the Linux pro's will disagree, because they are familiar with Linux, and if a problem arises, they will know where to start and how to solve it. My personal preference - still plain old Unix. -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Spurgeon, John P Sent: 17 February 2005 12:33 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: IDS 7 on Solaris vs. Linux Hi, I'm wondering what people think about running IDS 7.x on Solaris (8 or above) compared to Linux. In particular I'm wondering about Novell SuSE SLES 9 and Red Hat - RHEL AS 2.1 or RHEL 3.0 (AS, ES, or WS). Are there any combinations that are notable more or less stable than others? We've been running IDS 7.31 UC2 on Solaris 7 for some time now and are contemplating various upgrade paths. BTW, feel free to comment on more recent versions of IDS too. Thanks, John sending to informix-list sending to informix-list