[opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 Binary Compatibility for SCO 5.0.5
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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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
Otto Rodusek (AP-SGP) wrote: 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 13:55 -0500, Dave Grosvold 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
Otto Rodusek (AP-SGP) wrote: 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: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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.
So far, I haven't seen anything that wouldn't run In VMWare under SuSE Linux so if there isn't anything else available, crank up VMWare server in a window and run SCO Linux and your app natively...any results can be sent to a network printer or to a shared directory for other processing via ftp, ssh or even samba if SCO supports it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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