Sounds like you might not have to do fnuxi at all ... If your linux is running on x86, you will probably get away with just a copy and that's that - fnuxi is required if you changed endian-ness on the processor, not OS.
Why not just make the UV box export a SQL interface? Point out the fact that the quick fixes will go away. Point out the fact that the majority of servers on the internet run linux but the majority of compromised servers run Windows, so why does your admin want to change (in the name of security) from a demonstrably secure system to one that's less so? Suggest if he's so worried about the UV and Mumps servers, why not just firewall them off on their own subnet? Oh - and tell management the change is NOT likely to happen "in the next few years", because if your system is of any size it's unlikely to be possible to redevelop it that quick :-) Cheers, Wol -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brenda Price Sent: 21 July 2008 15:10 To: [email protected] Subject: [U2] converting from UniVerse on Redhat Linux to UniVerse on Windows There is a discussion here to either do completely away from UniVerse to SQL because 99% of our servers are windows applications and our network administrator doesn't know much about Linux and believes because we have to open up telnet for UniVerse and an old application on a Solaris box of Mumps that we are making the Linux less secure and that PCI requires we don't use telnet at all. We use SSH to login everywhere except for the communication between UniVerse and Mumps. As a stop gap the company may switch from Linux to Windows. I thought I remembered a discussion on this sometime in the last couple of years. I'll search the archives. In the meantime, has anyone have an experience with this? If so, did the costs stay the same, go up, go down. Any difficulties? Seems like it would be the same procedures as we had to run when we was transferring data from our live server (linux) to our old test server (Solaris), you had to do funxi on the data and that was that. They are in the process of getting comparison costs between UniVerse and SQL now. For those with both UniVerse and SQL experience, how does the development time differ. To me it appears that it takes the VB and SQL folks longer to get changes done then it does on the UniVerse systems. If we switch, it seems to me that the quick fixes users demands will be pretty much going away. Am I correct on this? I am 99.9% certain that the switch will happen at some point in the next few years. Brenda Price Affiliated Acceptance Corporation Sunrise Beach, MO 65079 ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
