[GRLUG] Any Linux + Oracle experts on the list?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 08:38 -0400, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 06:41:19PM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> [snip]
> > And Informix
> > <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/im/ids/dev.html>
> Informix is still around?  

Yep;  we've been an Informix shop since about 1990.  We were considering
alternatives years ago, but then IBM bought out Informix Inc and thus
liberated the product from that pack of bumbling dweebs.  Informix is
doing *extremely* well these days with regular releases, loads of new
features, and tiny new customers like Verizon,

11.5 developer version is available for free to IIUG members;  it's an
amazing piece of tech.
<http://www.iiug.org/news/announcements/ids_11.5_download.php>  IIUG
membership is free.

> Huh.  I cut my UNIX teeth maintaining a SCO
> UNIX box (before SCO was evil) running Informix 4gl.  Had a Y2K problem
> with it, too.  The guy who wrote the 4gl program coded several of the
> input screens with a hard "19" before the final two digits of the year
> (scraping them from the database field that also included the "20"
> before the "00") thus turning "2000" into "1900."  An Intel developer
> helped me make the necessary changes to the 4gl code.  Always fond
> memories.  :-)