Re: Informix support for Linux - "enterprise" Linux distros only

I take your words as mine. (Specially because I don't write english very well :-) Absolutely agree! Mario R. Canto Ben Thompson escribi': >IBM seem to have changed their policy on what Linux distribution they >will support (source: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/linux/). > >Roughly speaking it would seem that only RedHat and SuSE are now >supported rather than the previous policy of matching kernel and glibc >versions. This is OK for us but I am pleased we hadn't deployed our >systems on Mandrake, for example. > >As part of this policy it states that "our future direction is to >support enterprise versions only for major Informix releases." Now I >have just checked and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server comes in at '599+VAT. >OK, big deal but it effectively raises the outlay required for IDS per >server by that amount. One of the ways our company can justify IDS over >SQL Server 2000 (there are other reasons as well) is that we save money >by not having to buy Windows 2000 Server. The whole budget can be spent >on the DBMS. > >As we are experienced with Informix and rarely call technical support >and when we do it is it's invariably a bug we could maybe continue to >use SuSE Linux 9.0 if that was still possible. > >It does strike me as a slightly ill-thought move to effectively increase >the price in this way. You might say an enterprise database requires an >enterprise OS but to me these are only really labels. > >Anyone else care to comment? > >Ben. > > sending to informix-list