OT: Buying new Server with SCO 5.07 installed - Where

[Richard Kreiss]

Top post:

I am not happy with the idea of moving to a cloud solution, at least for now. 

Problem one is the difficulty of insuring the up time of your Internet connection. 

Problem two is security. It is difficult enough to insure inhouse security, depending on an outside source may not be the smartest move. Too many large company's have had their security breached. A cloud makes a tempting target. 

My wife works for a large healthcare system whose IT department (servers) are located in Richmond, Va with the main offices here in the Baltimore area. Her major complaint is the speed of the system. The other day she came home to work as their connections were down due to a problem Verizon was having. She was able to connect her VPN here. 

This seems counter to my statement about the cloud, but if the ISP connection fails, the whole office is down and not all jobs can be handled off site. 

Richard
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On Jan 24, 2012, at 8:59 AM, Walter Vaughan <wvaughan at steelerubber.com> wrote:

> 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.
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