Re: Licensing / operating system

Stefan wrote:

> In case of a hardware failure on the production server would it by
> easy, say just by copying some registration file, to switch the
> developer edition into an unlimited server edition?

No. The license files are node locked. You would have to enter the
license(s) on the backup system and register them.

> 
> Another question is about the operating system that best fits the
> needs of Interbase: The data-sheet talks about Suse 9 or 10 or
> Red Hat	Enterprise 3 or 4. What's about the minor versions, like
> Suse 10.0, 10.1 etc. or doesn't they matter? And what's about
> 32 versus 64 bits? Can you give me a recomendation of any free OS
> (like OpenSuse) that has been prooved to work stable and most
> performant with Interbase?

InterBase is a 32 bit application so you will not gain anything by
using a 64 bit O/S as far as IB is concerned. If you are looking for a
free O/S look at CentOS which is the open source version of Red Hat
Enterprise.

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We are going to install Interbase on two servers of one of our
customers, one production server with 2 Quadcore processors
and one server as backup and test system with 4 Dualcore processors.

Our idea is to make an unlimited Interbase installation on the
production server (we are expecting up to 400 concurrent connections)
and an installation of the developer edition on the backup system.

In case of a hardware failure on the production server would it by
easy, say just by copying some registration file, to switch the
developer edition into an unlimited server edition?

Another question is about the operating system that best fits the
needs of Interbase: The data-sheet talks about Suse 9 or 10 or
Red Hat	Enterprise 3 or 4. What's about the minor versions, like
Suse 10.0, 10.1 etc. or doesn't they matter? And what's about
32 versus 64 bits? Can you give me a recomendation of any free OS
(like OpenSuse) that has been prooved to work stable and most
performant with Interbase?

Thanks,

Stefan
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Stefan Sinne

Email: _DT_ = .

While we have not tested on it at this time, and I've not even seen it, 
Ibuntu seems like an interesting free choice and I've heard good stories 
on it. We are contemplating certifying on it in the future.

Stefan wrote:

  Can you give me a recomendation of any free OS
> (like OpenSuse) that has been prooved to work stable and most
> performant with Interbase?
> 
> Thanks,
> 

Stefan wrote:

> So, if I understand you right, it would not be necessary to install
> the server edition of Interbase. We could go on with the developer
> edition and make it a server edition just by entering and registering
> the right licenses, which should be a process of 5 minutes, I suppose?

I believe that is true but you should test it to make sure.

> > 
> You say that we won't gain anything by using a 64 bit OS, but we won't
> loose anything nor get any trouble if we still use 64 bits, correct?
> I am asking this because in an installation of the developer edition
> of Interbase 2007 on my test server (OpenSuse 10.2 64 bits) I had to
> change the startup script /opt/interbase/bin/ibmgr by commenting out
> the lines
> 
> LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19
> export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL
> 
> in order to get Interbase to run on this system.
> I really don't like to have to make changes of this kind in a
> production environment without confirmation of CodeGear that this
> change doesn't affect the stability of Interbase.

It is unlikely that you will get confirmation of anything from CodeGear
here. These are peer support newsgroups. The people that answer
questions are volunteers, not CodeGear employees. Occaisionally someone
from CodeGear will answer a question but don't expect that to happen.

The only thing I can tell you is the IB is not certified on any 64 bit
O/S.

> 
> Would you recommend to use CentOS or at least the 32 bit version of
> OpenSuse? (At the moment we are using OpenSuse 10.1 64 bits on all
> production systems)

If IB runs on 64 bit SuSe there is nothing preventing you from using
it. IB will never certify on every Linux distribution. There are too
many of them to make that practical.

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Quinn Wildman (CodeGear Developer Support) wrote:

> While we have not tested on it at this time, and I've not even seen
> it, Ibuntu seems like an interesting free choice and I've heard good
> stories on it. We are contemplating certifying on it in the future.

I believe you mean Ubuntu.

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