Rajesh Kapur wrote:
> We are currently running IDS 9.3/IDS 9.4 on Solaris 8 with pleasurable
> stability. We are considering moving to Linux for cost savings. IBM support
> tells me that IDS is supported on Linux 2.4, glibc 2.2.x. Would someone care
> to comment on the relative stability of IDS on Solaris vs. Linux? Should we
> go for Redhat Linux (7.3, 9, enterprise) or some other Linux? Thanks! Rajesh

I don't know the situation these days, but in the past Informix has
developed on 3 platforms initially and then ported to others. These were
Sun, HP and Pyramid (which had a dual universe), and simply because
these were the most difficult to develop on. After that, porting to
other platforms was a [relatively] simple task.

The porting process itself though is like a full development project.
You will always get bugs, but I believe the Informix process of old
(don't know about IBM), meant you were more likely to see cross-platform
issues rather than platform specific problems. But you can be assured
that you will see both. ;-)

Cheers,
--
Mark.

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