Informix IDS2000 and Zope/Python/Perl/PHP on Linux

[Tom Jenkins]

Thomas Volkmar Worm wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> I am consindering to use Informix Dynamic Server (Informix Internet
> Foundation 2000/Linux) together with Zope and the other 3 P's.
> 
> I wonder, whether somebody has any experience with Linux and
> 
> - IDS 2000 and Perl
> or
> - IDS 2000 and PHP
> or
> -  IDS 2000 and Python
> or
> - IDS 2000 and Zope
> 
> and can tell me about the experience he made with one or more of these
> combinations. I am interested to hear about
> 
> - availibility of the needed drivers
> - their (practical) compatibility to (eg. perl DBI, python DB-API 2.0,
> etc.)
> - stability
> - and what else someone has experienced
> 
> I already was an php.net, python.org, perl.org, zope.org - I guess I
> know whats available. It looks to me as if the support for IDS is not so
> strong, so I am really interested in real experience somebody had rather
> that what you can read in the READMEs. If you stopped using IDS together
> with P..., please tell me why and what db (other than mySQL, thats
> allready running here) are you using instead.
> 
> If some Informix/IBM people are around: Are there any contributions
> planned or in progress for the 3 P's by Informix/IBM? Where can I find
> online information about it?
> 
> If you respond to this posting, please send a CC to my email-address
> too.
> 
> Thanks for your efforts in advance
> 
> Regards
> Thomas Volkmar Worm
> 


One thing to keep in mind with Zope... you can call perl also.  This was 
added (by ActiveState I believe) so that the more "esoteric" databases 
that perl supports can be accessed in Zope.  Just a thought.

Tom