SCO->linux port fail

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Campbell" <bill at celestial.com>

> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Bill Campbell" <bill at celestial.com>
> >> 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.

Menu Maestro?  Really?

> 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.

Yeah; I'm sure virtualizing it would be productive, but Dave isn't 
comfortable with it.

> >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.

I'm not sure how that will play out either...

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

Hmm.  Interesting.
-- jra