Re: No more upgrades for SCO 3.2.4.2???

In <3u5vg0$9du@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> alastl@ix.netcom.com (John Prideaux) writes: >I have received an answer from Informix which places the blame squarely >on SCO's doorstep. It seems that the OS vendors pay the database >vendors to port to specific platforms and that SCO has decided not to >pay Informix to port the 6.02 tools to v3.2.4.2. I don't know about >the rest of you, but this seems odd behavior for a company which is >still concerned about maintaining Xenix compatibility. Come on, SCO. >Once Open Server 5.0 is proved stable, I will gladly upgrade to it. In >the mean time, please let me maintain a stable environment. My users >heads are already swimming because of the changes we recently had to go >through when Wyse announced that they were dropping support for the OS >on their 9000i model. This statement by Informix is, to my knowledge, completely false. I have never heard of SCO paying hard earned cash for a software port. The plain reality is that we really can't afford to do that and we don't have to do that. SCO is a first tier port for almost all the databases. I believe that we are very high up on the Informix license share graph, so it behooves Informix to provide new and current ports to SCO software releases quickly and promptly. That said, Informix is going to port their software to the current SCO release. I believe that OpenServer Release 5 is a very stable and reliable product today. In fact, I believe that it is more robust and offers more functionality that Version 4.2. Take the plunge. -- Jim Sullivan SCO Canada, Inc. Toronto, Ontario "Lawyers are for people too gutless jim@sco.com, ...!uunet!scocan!jim to shoot. I'd rather be shot" 416 960 4042 (922 8397 for fax) -- John Perry Barlow @ SCO Forum 94 -- Jim Sullivan