On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 13:55 -0500, Dave Grosvold wrote: > Otto Rodusek (AP-SGP) wrote: > > Kenneth Schneider wrote: > >> On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 01:42 +0800, Otto Rodusek (AP-SGP) wrote: > >> > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >>> I have a customer with SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 running PROGRESS 6.2 and > >>> THOROBRED BASIC. I would dearly love to port to opensuse 10.3. > >>> > >>> Has anyone had any experience (luck!!??) running SCO OpenServer > >>> binaries on opensuse? Any recommended web sites or wiki's with > >>> detailed instruction? > >>> > >>> Any help or advice would be much appreciated. > >>> > >>> Much thanks. Otto. > >>> > >> > >> The best solution would be for the programs to be ported to linux. Other > >> than that there used to be a portability program that allowed SCO > >> binaries to run in linux but it probably when the way of the dodo bird > >> when SCO started their lawsuit. > >> > >> > > Thanks for the feedback. You're probably right and indeed that would > > be the best approach. Unfortunately, there are too man apps and a port > > would be beyond the cost that the customer is able to bear. Hopefully > > someone with a similar issue has already solved the problem (wishful > > hoping!!). Thanks. Otto. > Unfortunately, there is no way to do this. I had a customer who was in > the same situation two years ago.They had SCO 5.0.5 and Progress v6.2. I > developed a custom application for them in 1991, and the app has run > without issues for almost 15 years. I finally had to have them upgrade > to SLES 9 (which was what was available at the time). and Progress v9.2, > which is directly supported on SLES 9 and SLES 10. I'm not sure if > Progress will provide technical assistance for their products running on > openSUSE. The primary reason for the upgrade was the aging hardware. SCO > 5.0.5 didn't support most of the newer hardware, and my client was > getting very nervous running the old hardware. They wanted a system that > could be supported.by someone other than me if I was run over by a bus! > Funny how that works... > > -- Dave Grosvold > >
The answer to that is to stay away from buses. :-) -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
