SCO Unix Server

[Ken Cole]

Get brand new hardware and install VMWare and then 5.0.5 on top of that if
that is how you really want to go.

There are plenty of good people on this list that could help you with that
if you are not fluent with VMWare.

Ken

On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 at 11:22 am, Robert Repko via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> I have a client that has finally agreed to consider a new server for their
> filePro application.  Their current server is a Dell PowerEdge 1300, which
> was purchased in 1999 making it 19 years old.   They are running SCO Unix
> 5.0.5   The server itself is still going strong, what made them consider a
> new server was the scare they just had when the server would not boot into
> Unix.  It wouldn't even allow you to boot into Single-User mode, it would
> just crash.  What made matters worse was their backups were failing.  I
> tried mounting their hard drive in my SCO Unix system and mount the drive,
> even then I could not mount the drive.  It said the hard drive was full
> and/or the filesystem was corrupt.  I was able to get them back up and
> running with a new hard drive and tape drive and was finally able to read 1
> tape that was backed up July 13.  I told them they were living on borrowed
> time with a 19 year old server.  The next time they have a problem it will
> be the server itself and n
>  ot the hard drive or tape drive.
>
> So my question is has anyone recently setup a new server running SCO Unix.
> I would prefer to install 5.0.5, but I would go to  5.0.7 if necessary.  If
> so what server did you use.  I don't see anything on the compatibility list
> for Dell or HP that I would consider late model, anything on the list is at
> least 4 generation old.  I could move them to Linux but that would require
> them to purchase a Linux version of filePro but I'm trying to keep the
> price down.  My goal would be to use their existing copy of SCO and filePro
> if at all possible.
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