FilePro running on Unix vs Windows

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Bill Campbell propounded (on Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 02:20:36PM -0800):
| On Wed, Dec 15, 2004, Cindy Youngman wrote:
| >Hi all,
| >
| >My company, Floors, Inc. has asked me to research the possibility of us
| >moving our system to a Windows based network platform. We are currently
| >running under Unix 4.8 with 256 users (bumping our limit).  We have data
| >files up to 1.6 gigs large (6.5 million records).
| 
| I would never put *ANY* mission-critical data on a Windows machine becuase
| of the many long-standing security and reliability problems inherent in the
| Windows design.  Furthermore, with 1.6gb already, you're not too far from
| the 2gb limit in Windows (I might suggest Apple's OS X Server, but I don't
| think FilePro runs on it :-).
| 
| I would strongly consider moving from your Unix platform (SCO presumably
| although 4.8 isn't one of their system designations), to either Linux or
| FreeBSD, neither of which have any per user licensing or limits.  FilePro
| licensing is another issue.
| 
| There are links to a few articles on Windows security and reliability on
| our web site.  Of particular interest is the 2nd link by Nicholas Petreley.

She was eliding a bit.  She meant she was running release 4.8 of filePro
on some version of Unix.

-- 
JP