Looking for some upgrade advice

[Boaz Bezborodko]

Is win2003 easy to move up to from Netware?

I understand that running filePro on the server can speed things up
given that the disk access is right there.  But I don't have any
complaints about access right now and we're working mostly on 7 year old
PIIs and Celerons with a 100Mb ethernet.  I'd rather spend the money on
upgrading the individual computers and the server hardware to GigE and a
faster disk subsystem.

Any more thoughts or advice?

Transpower wrote:

> My Windows 2003 Server and those of my clients have never crashed. 
> Terminal Server works great; I can even connect to one wirelessly with
> my Windows Mobile 5 device (using Terminal Services client)!  Of
> course I still also like SCO UNIX OpenServer--super reliable and fast,
> with good disaster recovery tools available.
>
> Regards,
> Ron Satz
> Transpower Corporation, www.transpowercorp.com, transpower at aol.com
> SCO Authorized and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineering
>
>
> Boaz Bezborodko wrote on 5/19/2006, 8:31 AM:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>John Esak
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>>-----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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>The FilePro applications themselves run decently and will obviously run
>>>>better if I simply upgraded the server hardware and the network to GigE.
>>>>
>>>>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?
>>>>
>>>>Any other options I should be considering?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks in advance,
>>>>
>>>>Boaz
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>
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