SCO->linux port fail

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bill Campbell" <bill at celestial.com>
...
>> I'm not familiar with Genix so can't address that.
>
>Menu Maestro?  Really?

If you had said Menu Maestro I would have recognized it.  I don't
do enough FilePro myself to have had to deal with that.  We have
had clients who had to continue to run SCO OpenServer because
their FilePro applications included things like compiled 286
Xenix binaries with no source code.  These wouldn't run on any of
the Linux emulators that handle SCO binaries so we kept them on
SCO systems either on real iron, or in VMware VMs.

>> 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.

We have been using the free VMware server with OpenServer 5.0.6a
in several production environments since early 2008 with
excellent results.  We replaced our in-house system in March
2008, and our oldest client machine has been running 24x7 since
at least June 2008.  Our in-house VM sometimes goes into an out
of stream resources condition requiring a hard reboot, but I've
never had real incentive to track the problem down as we always
have a current snapshot and nightly backups of data on another
machine so it wouldn't be a problem to restore if necessary.

I have been considering install VMware ESXi on a machine to try
that, but haven't had any extra hardware that's really suitable
to run virtual machines.

I did replace the main board on our main Linux server here last
April when a chipset fan failed after over 3,900 hours uptime,
It's an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe which probably would work now that
I've replace the chipset fan.  It's a matter of time to get a
round tuit.

Bill
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