OT: RE: Unix Help re Samba - for filePro

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010, John Esak wrote:
> 
>> Why are you moving to 5.0.6 as "new", when 5.0.7 has been out 
>> for years,
>> anyway?
>> 
>> mark->
>
>My guess is licensing (cost).... The licenses which worked forever
>throughout all of 5.0 do work on 5.0.6... They do NOT work on 5.0.7 and all
>new (rather than grade) codes are required. I debated a very long time with
>myself over moving to 5.0.7.  It finally becaome mandatory be4cause I wanted
>to use SATA drives... Snd while some say it can be done at the 5.06 level...
>It really can not.  I did try ... The hassle is loading through the CD media
>when the new motherboard chipsets are only really supported on 5.0.7 from
>jump street.  You can upgrade to this stuff if you already have 5.0.6
>loaded, but there is no way to start fresh with only 5.0.6 media and make
>SATA CD's and hard drives work.  (okay, now I'll get hundreds of messages
>saying how easy it was and how it is done very simply merely by ... Etc.,
>etc.  I don't think so, first, and even if it is possible.... It is simply
>not worth the hassle when a small upgrade fee to the new licensing makes it
>so easy.  

The standard answer to the hardware compatibility problems with
OpenServer is to run 5.0.6a in a VMware virtual machine.  This
allows one to run on the latest hardware while VMware hides the
hardware from SCO.  In my experience the system perfermance is
far superior to SCO running native on older hardware.

>Actually, the question might be these days... Why stay on SCO and upgrade...
>Why not take the opportunity to change platform to some Linux as well.
>Again, the cost could be the thing...you'd have to cross platform the
>filePro. Those prices for all apps would tend to be prohibitive.

It remains to be seen what happens as far as the future of SCO
goes.  It looks like the land sharks have pretty much left little
for future development, marketing, or growth.

Bill
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