Moving from SCO to Suse Linux

[John Esak]

top posted again.
That is exactly why we are sending Rick to the conference.  To check out the
mail server and get the NFR.
Thanks
John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: joe at magnatechonline.com [mailto:joe at magnatechonline.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 8:33 AM
> To: John Esak
> Cc: filePro mailing list
> Subject: Re: Moving from SCO to Suse Linux
>
>
> [ top-post for john ]
>
> John, you might want to look at that mail server product (SCOoffice Server
> http://www.sco.com/products/officeserver/).  i did the webinar series on
> it, it look's like a great fit for companies with windows PC's,
> SCO server,
> and their only need for an MS server is as an exchange server.  Completely
> replaces it with lots of goodies - mail (including spam, virus check),
> outlook calendaring (API coming soon - can't wait to send outlook
> calendaring info to/from filepro), shared address books, etc.
>
> Going to pick up an NFR very soon myself.
>
> -joe
>
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 12:28:57AM -0400, John Esak wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > I do not want to say this definitively, but we are going to SCO
> Forum this
> > year... and I have been told that we will receive the entire SCO product
> > line as free NFR's. This will *include* a full 5.0.7 license
> set. We only
> > have a 100 user copy... but nothing is a whole hell of a lot less than
> > $4,000. Oh, well, let's see, the conference costs $99 for the MGM Grande
> > hotel room, and um, nothing for the rest of the conference assuming you
> > don't want to take the speical training on Wednesday for $199
> and get a free
> > NFR copy of the new mail system, too.
> >
> > How far is Las Vegas from you?
> >
> > JE
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > >
> > > > JE
> > > >
> > > >
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