Oracle vs. Informix [LWN.net]

Oracle vs. Informix

Posted Aug 18, 2010 16:12 UTC (Wed) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
Parent article: A few LinuxCon moments

Oracle announced before Informix, but Informix had their proprietary database running on Linux at their 1998 user conference, starting July 22, 1998. (At the time I was with Electric Lichen LLC, and Informix was a client.)

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Oracle vs. Informix

Posted Aug 18, 2010 17:20 UTC (Wed) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

I'm a little fuzzy here, but I remember that Oracle did run "unofficially" on Linux (even available gratis, but under your own risk) for quite some time before official support was offered.

Oracle vs. Informix

Posted Aug 18, 2010 18:56 UTC (Wed) by sniper (subscriber, #13219) [Link]

Yes, it did. Oracle for (Real)SCO x86 ran under Linux/x86.
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Apps/oracle7-sco-on-linux-setup...
http://www.linux.com/learn/docs/ldp/663-Oracle-7-HOWTO

Oracle vs. Informix

Posted Aug 18, 2010 19:13 UTC (Wed) by bracher (subscriber, #4039) [Link]

IIRC, the SCO version ran on linux with minimal effort for quite some time before there was an official linux version.

anyone remember iBCS?

Posted Aug 18, 2010 19:35 UTC (Wed) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]

There used to be a project called "iBCS" (Intel Binary Compatibility Standard?) that let you run SCO applications, including both Informix and Oracle, on Linux. Since there used to be much more software for SCO OpenServer and Unixware than for Linux.

These kids today have it easy®.

Oracle vs. Informix

Posted Aug 26, 2010 21:25 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]

Actually, if I've got my facts right, they were BOTH WELL LATE to the linux party :-)

iirc, Pick Systems were actually *selling* their D3 database in 199*6*.

This came in two versions, plain D3 running on Red Hat, and D3-native where Pick replaced the userland so the user didn't see linux underneath.

(obTopic - Informix were later reverse-taken-over by a Pick-alike vendor - six months after taking over Ardent, all the Informix guys were gone and the Ardent people were running the show with their UniVerse and UniData databases ousting the Informix database as the main product(s) of the company)

Cheers,
Wol