OS stability when running filePro

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>Quoting Bob Rasmussen (Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:46:12 -0800 (PST)):
>
>> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, GCC Consulting wrote:
>>
>>> It seems to me that it would make more sense to move to Windows PC's and use
>>> the terminal emulation software programs available such as Anzio. There are
>>> others on the list who could recommend other emulators.
>>
>> Not so! When you run a Windows version of filePro on the *client* machine,
>> there is no need for, or place for, a terminal emulator. The filePro runs
>> as a Windows console program; that is, it looks like a DOS application.
>
>Perhaps he meant "keep filePro on a Unix server, and move the only clients
>to Windows, using a terminal emulator"?  That way, filePro runs as it always
>has, and the people using it can be "happy" in their Windows environment.
>And, since filePro is still on a Unix box, all your scripts remain as-is.

I can understand wanting to move from an SCO Unix system, but would
recommend moving to Linux or FreeBSD as they're far more stable and secure
than the Microsoft Virus, Windows.  The transition from SCO OpenServer to
Linux is pretty easy, and many on this list have made this transition over
the years.  The current CUPS printing mechanism now supports the standard
SYSV printing mechanism, lp, lpstad, lpadmin, and company which I find far
easier to use than the earlier Berkeley lpr system.

We're now doing our new installs on CentOS, a free version of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, having moved away from SuSE Linux Enterprise systems due
to lack of support from Novell/SuSE.

We have some applications running on CentOS 4.5 because 3rd party software
isn't supported or plain doesn't work on CentOS 5.  These correspond to the
RHEL4.5 and RHEL5 respectively.  CentOS 5.1 was release shortly after
RHEL5.1, but I'm waiting a bit before upgrading as there has been quite a
bit of traffic on the CentOS mailing list about issues that may cause
problems.

Bill
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