Recipe for migrating from SCO to Linux

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

I am strongly entertaining the thought of migrating our company OFF of SCO
OpenServer 5.0.5 onto a flavor of Linux.
Has anyone written a recipe for doing this, step-by-step?
I realize I have to get different licensing from filePro, etc. and if memory
serves me correctly, they also have something that
converts files from SCO to Linux?

Amongst other things, my reasoning is getting a stronger platform as our
company continues to grow rapidly.
We are up to about 60 end-users and still climbing.
I have heard that on a proper Linux server, indexing, amongst other things,
run much quicker on Linux than on SCO?
Is this true? Can anyone confirm this?
In other words, if you took 2 IDENTICAL servers, one with SCO and one with
Linux, and indexed the same file, is there a
NOTICEABLE speed advantage on the Linux side?

On a different note, I also want to look into converting our character based
filePro to have more of a Windows feel, using more
mouse than keyboard, etc. but I think that's a pretty large undertaking as
our system has a LOT of different menus, data files, browses, etc.

So many grand ideas I have, so little time haha

But for now, I'm mainly looking for the conversion to Linux - speaking of
which, does the community favor a specific Linux flavor over others?
I will be looking to get a dual or quad processor server with a LOT of RAM,
etc to assist in the speed aspect as well.
Currently, we use NetTerm on the end-users PC's to access filePro - and I
will be looking to switch all of them to puTTy - is that do-able
to whatever Linux platform we choose?

Any tips, tricks, pointers etc that you guys can contribute would all be
appreciated.
Thanks


Scott
PDM, Inc.
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