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Oracle vs. Informix

Oracle vs. Informix

Posted Aug 18, 2010 19:13 UTC (Wed) by bracher (subscriber, #4039)
In reply to: Oracle vs. Informix by vonbrand
Parent article: A few LinuxCon moments

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


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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®.

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