Chris,
From the mail I have read, you should be able to get informix running on
Linux, sounds like a bit of messing about though.
Have you considered Unixware from Novell, again I have not tried it myself
but have heard from several people that the SCO Informix executables will
run out of the box without a problem.
Unixware is also fairly cheap (at least over here). I can get a full
development environment, X et al for under 500.
Mark Denham
BBC
London, UK
Mark.Denham@bbc.co.uk