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The honourable and venerable Henry Arredondo spoke thus:
> Mark,
>
> Do you know what happened to SuSE ? Their linux distro is weird and I had
> many issues with some programs to compile or run on it, so I never liked
> them.  Are you running a Centos Server running filepro ? Is it faster
> than a server running SCO and filepro ? Is there a user limitation when
> running Centos for filepro ?

In a word?  Novell.  Novell happened to SuSE.  The engineering promptly
took a dive after the SuSE 9.x Professional line was superceded.

I run several CentOS servers.  I'm not running fP in-house, but I do admin
boxes running fP on CentOS, with more on the way to being deployed.  We're
getting off SLES10 early as possible because Novell's End-of-Lifing it next
summer, and it's been a pain to admin.  Costly, when your updates aren't
made available to you because Novell's servers forget your registration
information randomly, you can spend up to 4-5hrs trying to re-register a
box with their home office, and the repository won't rebuild without
multiple retries.  It just sucks.  That's when they don't throw at you
kernels that won't boot, etc.  (At least five kernel updates in SLES10
from SP1 through SP3 required manual fixes before the system would boot.)

Linux + fP outperforms SCO + fP on lesser hardware, or even did in iBCS
emulation when iBCS and later ABI were an option.  Hands down, lots faster.

fP has fP's user limitations, period.  Doesn't matter what OS you
run.  There is no OS-related user limitation inherent in sane linux
distributions, period.

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