There are long-term plans for porting iMS to Linux but we're not even in the planning
stages yet.
Thanks,
Howie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kym Kovan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "inFusion Support List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 12:03 AM
Subject: Re: [iMS] iMS poll
> Hi all,
>
> >>We're thinking of dropping iMS support for Win95/98/me/xp. Does anyone
> >>use iMS on one of those platforms at all? I've only felt
> >>that those were platforms for doing demos and nothing more. But now, you
> >>can even order laptops with WIN2K preinstalled. And, if
> >>someone wanted to demo iMS on one of those platforms we could still make
> >>1.5 and 2.0 available for those purposes.
> >
> >95/98/ME, no. XP? Isn't the Professional version the successor of
> >Windows 2000 Professional?
>
> Good point. I don't have a clue where XP sits, and have no intention of
> finding out :-) Certainly regarding notebooks the facility available now
> is such that I have 2000 on mine and a full-blown dev version of iMS and
> microsetMail. Works like a treat :-)
>
> The other aspect is the CF server if you are running iMS on that platform.
> Running CF5 on 95 would be a bit interesting :-)
>
> Certainly from what we can see there is no need for 95/98/ME any more.
>
> So lets turn it round with something I was about to raise with Howie for
> the next version and that is to make iMS OS independent, at least as far as
> the platforms that CF runs on.
>
> As a hosting firm we are putting in more and more linux boxes running CF as
> a purely economical measure as CF runs just as well as on an NT box these
> days. It would be really nice to run iMS on a linux box and save ourselves
> Au$1000 in an NT license fee and use PostGreSQL or similar. The config for
> iMS is easy, just use a text file rather than a registry entry, but what is
> inside the code I do not know, that's Howie's territory :-)
>
>
> --
>
> Yours,
>
> Kym
>
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