Re: Informix running on Linux

On 17 Apr 97 at 0:22, Tom Schaefer wrote: Good lord!! How many Schaefers are there using Informix, anyway? :-) > Have any of you got Informix running on Linux? Yes. > If so, is there a FAQ, web site, 'Linux HOWTO' available for this? I > can't seem to find anything at all about this ... The only thing you have to do for the "simpler" engines (<= 5.x) is make sure that iBCS is loaded and working on your Linux box, then load SCO software. We got SE5 and OL5 up in no time at all. DSA is a bit more tricky - I did see one post where someone had got DSA up on shared memory but couldn't get it going with TCP or vice-versa. Search dejanews for more info. > If not, and it cannot be done, is there a technical reason or is it > because of some "we don't support Linux" policy that Informix has? It's the "we don't support Linux" policy... :-( But at least it can be done.. :-) > (I imagine the latter is the case) > > There is a big opportunity here for Informix if they did start > supporting it ... even if they settled on a particular Linux > distribution ... they could even make their own distribution and own > the os AND the database ... they could tune the kernel which ever way > they wanted cuz they'd have the source code for the os! Good reasoning, but this is a commercial vendor we're talking about...:-) -- Ciao, Billy Nose to the ground and ear to the grindstone in: Johannesburg Why is it hard for women to find men who are sensitive, caring and good looking? Because those men already have boyfriends.