Looking for some upgrade advice

[Boaz Bezborodko]

Are your clients running Windows as the fileserver or are they running
the filePro processes on the server as well?

Boaz

GCC Consulting wrote:

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>>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,
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>>Boaz
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>Been away and am getting into this thread a bit late.
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>I am running filepro on win2003 server as well as having most of my clients
>on windows server.  Most are on Win 2003 but a few are still on Win NT 4.0.
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>As far as uptime goes.  Other then for one hardware fix (bad tape drive) all
>of the machines have been running flawlessly since they were started up.  
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>Only after some patches were added of Norton anti-virus corp. addition was
>installed have the server needed to be rebooted.  In those cases, the system
>was off line for less then 5 minutes.
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>My own server has been up since April of last year with only a few reboots
>when necessary.  One client is presently running one win 2003 server and a
>backup server running Win NT 4.0. The NT machine has been running for about
>4 years and has not been rebooted or down in the last 2 years. (Maybe next
>time I'm there we'll reboot it).  The primary server has been up since it
>was installed 2 years ago except of the replacement of the tape drive.
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>I am not going to get in to the discussion of performance differences,
>whoever, I have found server 2003 to be very stable and did correct some of
>the file locking problems of NT 3.5 and 4.0.
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>As mentioned in an earlier post, a move from Novell to Win 2003 should be
>fairly easy and take the least amount of time.  
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>Richard Kreiss
>GCC Consulting
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