OT: Buying new Server with SCO 5.07 installed - Where

[Walter Vaughan]

Brian K. White wrote:

>The licensing for the vmware version of osr5 is poisonous.
>
>"SCO OpenServer 5.0.7V licenses are Subscription Licenses. This means 
>that they are only valid for, and will expire at the end of the License 
>period. At the end of the License period you will need to renew your 
>license and register it if you want to continue to use the product."
>
>You don't ever get to own the system. Just rent it. It is always 
>counting down to stop working. You must perpetually renew the license or 
>it will stop working on it's own. It's like a bomb hooked up to a 
>treadmill. You stop pedaling, you die.
>
>Migrating to linux, and all that that admittedly entails, is a far safer 
>and wiser investment.
>
>You can also run regular osr5 in a vm, just less efficiently, but for 
>most typical uses of osr5 you will never know the difference.
>  
>
Yeah, I fully agree with Brian here. Even if you could get modern 
hardware that would work work OSR5.0.X, your best long term solution 
will be to move the application to either run natively on linux or even 
more long term would be as a vmware image running on ESXI or a cloud 
server. Clinging to local server hardware is akin to thinking a 
Remmington Typewriter is better than an IBM Selectric.