Recipe for migrating from SCO to Linux

[Nancy Palmquist]

I have a customer that uses a Linux system and I have no trouble doing 
my development on SCO Unix.  All things filePro work just fine.

The things I have to remember have to do with the script language.  We 
use SuSE Linux and the bash shell, uses cp instead of copy.  The tar 
options are different.  As I recall those are the things I had to 
change.  - SCO Unix understands the cp command change just fine, the tar 
difference does not work on SCO.

So I think you will have no trouble doing this at all.

You are right you need a different filePro license for Linux.  They do 
not consider a change from Unix to Linux an upgrade, as I recall.  They 
only offer a migration if it is not too old.  Haven't looked at this for 
a while so I could be off on this info.

Nancy



On 6/30/2010 9:59 AM, scooter6 at gmail.com wrote:
> 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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