SCO->linux port fail

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bill Campbell" <bill at celestial.com>
>
>> >FOLO: It's been decided, tentatively, that this is approaching  Diminishing
>> >Returns, and it will be cheaper to bite the bullet and upgrade SCO to
>> >5.0.7 (or 5.0.6, if I can still find oss648), and say the hell with
>> >it.
>> 
>> It would be less expensive in the long run to upgrade FilePro to
>> run on Linux than continue to beat that deceased equine.
>
>Genix, alas, won't run on any linux newer than 2.4, which means SuSE
>9.0; that's the path we've just abandoned because it was throwing
>unexpected flags.

I'm not familiar with Genix so can't address that.

We have a couple of instances of SuSE 9.0 Pro running either
natively or in VMware VMs supporting our old accounting
application which is based on the Unify RDMS with lots of C code
compiled on 5.0.6a.  These work fine in either case.

Our in-house SCO 5.0.6a development system is running in a VMware
VM on a CentOS 5 machine which also hosts several other VMs for
development in FreeBSD, OpenSolaris (dead after license change),
CentOS 4, and several other flavours of Linux I play with on
occassion.

>> OpenServer 5.0.6a runs fine in VMware as well, usually much
>> faster than on the old, slow hardware.
>
>I suggested to Dave jacking up their current install and sticking 
>Virtualbox under it, but he didn't want to get bitten.

I thought of trying Virtualbox, but gave up the idea after Oracle
bought Sun.  I simply don't trust Oracle not to do things with
FOSS software as they did with OpenSolaris.

So far all our virtual machines are running on VMware hosted
either on Linux servers or VMware Fusion on OS X Snow Leopard.

Bill
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