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Installing
These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® database servers, client products, and DataBlade® modules.
Client products
These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® client products.
Open source drivers
You can use open source languages to write applications for HCL Informix® database servers.

Installing
These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® database servers, client products, and DataBlade® modules.
- Informix® server
  These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® database servers.
- Client products
  These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® client products.
  - Informix® Client SDK
    This topic describes how to install Informix® Client SDK on UNIX™, Linux™, and Windows™ operating systems.
  - Open source drivers
    You can use open source languages to write applications for HCL Informix® database servers.
    - PHP
      HCL Informix® supports database access for client applications that are written in the PHP programming language by using a PDO (PHP Data Object) extension that functions as a database extraction layer. Two open source PDO extensions are available for Informix: the PDO for Informix and the PDO for Data Server clients.
    - Ruby
      HCL Informix® supports database access for client applications that are written in the Ruby programming language with two open source packages. Each package, which is known as a ruby gem, is a precompiled file that combines the Ruby driver and the Ruby on Rails adapter in a standard framework for the Ruby runtime environment.
- DataBlade modules
  These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® DataBlade® modules.
- Informix® warehouse accelerator
  These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® warehouse accelerator.

Open source drivers

You can use open source languages to write applications for HCL Informix® database servers.

The following languages can be used:

PHP
Ruby

For information about other open source languages that you can use with HCL Informix®, see www.iiug.org/opensource.

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