Re: Informix and DEC (Alpha and Digital Unix)?

Bill Jaeger (wlj@cais.com) wrote: : We're looking to replace an RS6k running Online v5.0x with a new machine and : Online v7.x. One of the platforms that we're looking at is the DEC Alpha : running Digital Unix. Informix says that they don't consider DEC to be a : "first tier" vendor, and that releases are typically longer in coming for : a DEC platform as opposed to HP/IBM/Sun. They are right and the initial ports to Alpha were very poor. We have been very happy with the stability of Informix Online 7.1 on DEC Alpha. However, they haven't ported DB/Cockpit and other stuff but the core engine is there. I have to use 5.x tools because 4GL and SQL are buggy in the 6.x release (Bug# 41158) and they haven't gotten around to fixing them yet (it has been several months). : How bad can we expect this lag to be? Does anyone have any horror stories : about Informix on an Alpha? Some day Informix will recognize that Oracle is killing them with their 64-bit port to Alpha and start taking it more serious. No flames please, I am a red-blooded Informix loyalist but not happy with their casual support of DEC Alpha and Digital UNIX. -- +-----------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | BRIAN K. HOLMAN | E-Mail: brian_holman@byu.edu | | Programmer/Systems Analyst | URL: http://www.lib.byu.edu/staff/bkh/ | | Library Information Systems | Mail: 2330 HBLL, Provo, UT 84602 | | Brigham Young University | Phone: (801) 378-8162 | +-----------------------------+--------------------------------------------+