Re: Oracle and Informix on the same Sun

>Tim Helton (timh@amgen.com) wrote: >: Is anyone out there running Informix and Oracle on the same Sun? If so, >: are there any problems? >I can't tell about Sun, but we are running both Informix (Online 5.01, >4GL 4.1) and Oracle (7.something, backend and frontends) on Siemens-Nixdorf >RM series servers. There are no problems that I know of. I cannot give >you any details about the Oracle side, since I am only the Informix DBA >and sysadmin, but the two systems don't harm each other. >The only "incompatibility" I ever saw is that both Informix and Oracle >by default suggest TCP port no. 1525 for their networking (Informix-Star, >Oracle SQL*Net). This was never a problem for us since we've always been >using port 22222 for Informix, since there used to be a product by >Siemens-Nixdorf called "Informix NETStation" for PCs which had this >port hardcoded. We don't use it any more, but there is no need to change >that portnumber. I believe the only thing you would need to be concerned about is the UNIX parameters for shared memory and semaphores. Other than that and the TCP port no mentioned above all should be ok. I have used both on the same machine in the past. Gordon, Australia >Regards, Richard >-- >+----------------------------+-------------------------------------------+ >| Dr. Richard Spitz | INTERNET: spitz@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de | >| EDV-Gruppe Anaesthesie | Tel : +49-89-7095-3421 | >| Klinikum Grosshadern | FAX : +49-89-7095-8886 | >| 81366 Munich, Germany | | >+----------------------------+-------------------------------------------+ gordonh@acslink.net.au RIPLEY, Queensland, Australia