moving from Sco to Linux

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 10:09:53AM -0400, John Esak wrote:
> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Jeremy
> > Anderson
> >
> > I'm quite new to the list, as well as filepro.
> > We currently have filepro 4.5, running on SCO.
> > The SCO box is getting long in the tooth, and we will soon
> > outgrow it.  Has anyone migrated from 4.5/Sco to 5.0/Linux?  I'm
> > looking at Mandrake 10.0 as the base OS, likely run on a no-name server.
> 
> Why would you not saty on SCO and just upgrade the filePro?  The latest SCO
> is as bulletproof as all the rest were and you already own the license, no?

Because SCO is now a litigation company, not a software company?

I've added SCO to my close-of-business 2005 list.  Along with Microsoft.

> If you have to move to Linux for whatever reason...  I think the scuttle I'm
> hearing is go to SuSE.

I will concur here.  9.0.

And, as was pointed out to me in Linux Magazine yesterday, Novell, who
bought SCO, have a *contractual right* to "use Unix" in the contract
they signed with SCO, granting SCO whatever rights it got, so if
you're using SuSE, you're likely indemnified from SCO's wrath.

Cheers,
-- jra
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