Moving from SCO to Linux

[Jeremy Anderson]

tom heine wrote:
> with linux boxes, filepro is very slightly quirky,  and you really
have to stay on top of the security updates.....

Well, one has to stay on top of security updates with _any_ OS.  Regardless of that, I'm curious as to what you mean by "very slightly quirky".  Quirky as in "Hrm, that's odd, that line printer was processing jobs fine just five minutes ago", or quirky as in "Hrm, that's interesting, I could've sworn there used to be a machine room there, instead of a mushroom cloud..."  ?

Revisiting the security updates:  I'm comfortable enough with most distributions and with patching code to upgrade/manually fix anything that needs to be fixed.  Furthermore, the machine will be hardened, and placed within a secured network.  I wouldn't hang _any_ machine just out on the internet.  

I find SCO objectionable for the following reasons:
1. I'm markedly less familiar with SCO than Linux
2. I have to pay per-seat licensing with SCO
3. SCO's primary business model seems to be 'sue your way to the top'

Those are most definitely in the proper order, too.  Does SCO run and run and run?  Absolutely.  Will a properly configured Linux box do the same?  Ja, unless the software thereon is buggy (for everyone's benefit, please do not ask me about my experiences with ensim).  AIX is, in my experience, far more robust than SCO, but I'm not considering it for this application because it's overkill.  

My major concern is migrating the filepro product itself.  Basically, will I be able to move the directory structure over, and crank up the Linux version?  Or is there lots of file masssaging that has to be done (outside the normal ownership/perm issues)?

Jeremy
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Jeremy Anderson          jeremy (at) plunketts.net
IT Manager, Plunkett's Pest Control
Author, MultiTool Linux