Looking for some upgrade advice

[Boaz Bezborodko]

What kind flexibility would I be gaining?  Not being fascetious, it's
just that I haven't really looked into any server feature sets since I
installed Netware 5. 

My other concern is uptime and security, but it seems that 2003  is
better than I was led to believe.

Of course I coul just stick to newer and better hardware with the same
old OS.  Most of the hardware I'd consider (upgrading to a still old
Storage Array 4300 RAID controller would still give me an 8-fold
increase in disk transfer speeds and most of the database will fit in
memory anyway) will have drivers for NW 5.

Boaz

John Esak wrote:

>I'm going to top-post... sorry.
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>I am a *nix person almost exclusively... and I think getting a hold of a
>Unix guru like Bill Campbell to help you put in a Linux system would be
>unbeatable. HOWEVER... lacking the money (and I think it would be pretty
>considerable to do something like that...) I would never consider switching
>from a platform I know and like to something *completely* foreign. It would
>be just as hard to go from being a solid Unix house to a Windows server.
>The bottom line for me is to agree with Wally, if you are comfortable with
>Netware... moving to a @003 server would be relatively painless and offer
>you huge new flexibility.
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>John Esak
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com
>>[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com]On
>>Behalf Of Boaz Bezborodko
>>Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 9:30 PM
>>To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
>>Subject: Looking for some upgrade advice
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>>I want to start planning an upgrade of our company's server.  Currently
>>we are using FilePro on Windows working off an old Netware 5.0 server
>>based on a PII-350 machine.
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>>The FilePro applications themselves run decently and will obviously run
>>better if I simply upgraded the server hardware and the network to GigE.
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>>I was considering using Linux instead of Netware, but does this mean
>>having to learn something completely new or are there some decent
>>packaged versions that avoid some of the pain?
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>>Any other options I should be considering?
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>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>Boaz
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