Moving from SCO to Suse Linux

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 02:34:05PM -0700, Enrique Arredondo wrote:
> > Good try... not going to happen. If you want another copy of filePro on
> > another platform, it is going to cost you the price of that new platform.
> > Anything else is sort of like saying, I'm done with my Ford now I want a
> > Pontiac, won'tyou give me one for $1?  :-)  Like I said good try.

I missed out on saying that that argument is utter hogwash, in my
earlier reply, so I just want to say it now.

What we're paying for is a *license to use the package on our
computer*.  I'm pretty sure the slip of paper you get with it says so.

What it *is* similar to is Kenwood saying, "Oh, you want to take your
stereo out of your Corvette and put it in your new Bimmer?  Sorry; you
can't do that; that model of stereo only works in Corvette's.  But
we'll be happy to sell you a *new* stereo that only works in Bimmers;
full price."

> Can I sell it on ebay ?

Sure.  It's yours, clearly.

> > As for switching from SCO, that is up to you, but there would have
> > to be some compelling reason to do so. Why not just move to 5.0.7
> > and then Legend in the 1st quarter of next year?
>
> If I move to 5.0.7 it'll cost me about $4,000 for licesing 256 users
> (or more!) because all my current licences are not carry on style. As
> for Linux it's about $1200 upto 32 CPU's with Suse and about $800 with
> REDHAT.

Ah yes.  SCO 5.0.7.   The "Pay-us-all-over-again, just-so-your-P4-will-
work" release.  Assholes.

> Oh man, If I could get a key generator for OSR507 and make it 512
> licenses that's the only way I could definately wanna use SCO more
> over Linux.

Well, I don't know precisely what your commercial support requirements
are, Enrique, but you may or may not need the enterprise grade distros
to actually get your work done.  Certainly, if $4k is an issue, then
it's worth investigating things like SuSE 9.0.

Cheers,
- jra
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