Moving from SCO to Suse Linux

[John Esak]

 for the vendor to know that you are not still using the old
> > software on a fully working system. Even if that weren't
> > the crux of the issue, just the simple dollars of how the
> > company makes money is critical. This is the whole O/S we are
> > talking about... the car... not the radio... In the case of
> > say Microlite BackupEdge... you use it on SCO for two years,
> > then buy another server... they are not going to just send you
> > a completely new or even upgrade package for less than full
> > price.
>
> Not entirely true.  Since one customer always buys support
> contracts - as the want to be sure of having someone to talk to in
> case I [or any other vendor] gets hit by a train, when I called
> Microlite to migrate them from SCO to SuSE I was told that all we
> had to do was us the serial number sent with the upgrades - that
> are sent automatically.
>
> So while not full-price it was a benefit of the yearly support
> contract.
>
>
> --
> Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

I think I could go for that... a yearly $$ contract... helping to defray the
cost of an upgrade... of course, happnes all the time. If there were such a
thing from FP Tech, I'd buy it. In this case, chaning platforms could be one
of the bennies to buying the support... at least a lower upgrade fee.

John