Re: will SCO 5.0.6 Enterprise work on SATA

Marc Champagne wrote:
Alan DePietro <ald_at_senecadata_dot_com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in news:saato35ijuhgt4q9gp5kkpdr4trtuvfqn3@xxxxxxx:

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:31:41 GMT, Marc Champagne
<garbage.bin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

For what it s worth, we were going to get this setup:

Intel Q6600 QuadCore
ASUS P5K [RAID]
2 X 1 GB DDR2 KINGSTON
2 X SATA 160GO WESTERN DIGITAL 8 MB Cache
DVD-RW SATA PIONEER 18X
Go ahead and try it...when you're done beating your head on
your desk in frustration, load OSR6 on it and buy an older
system on Ebay to load 5.0.6 on.

Alan, the primary purpose of switching machines is to keep
the 5.0.6 working at whatever cost. The above mentionned
system is complete overkill for 5.0.6, I know that and we
are not expecting or wanting max performance to come of it,
again our goal is to keep the 5.0.6. running but on new hardware.

We are looking at porting to linux later on, that's where
the quad will get it's use (or part thereof anyways).

Even if you have spent the $$$$ on SMP licenses, 5.0.6
still isn't likely to happily support multi-core CPUs.

We havn't spent a dime on upgrading SCO since 5.0.7 came out
and that won't change, in my mind SCO is dead. I did grow up
with it (since the Xenix days) and am very confortable with it,
but it's passé.

SCO is delisted from the NasDAQ, and *bankrupt*. They're spending the last of their money right now on lawyers, to keep Novell from completing the lawsuits about the ownership of UNIX and recovering the UNIX license fees that SCO kept in violation of their licensing agreement with Novell. Look over at www.groklaw.net for details on the history of this mess.

I, personally, am pursuing virtualization of a remaining 5.0.6 license or two under Linux servers to keep it alive. I've heard reasonable reports of doing so under XMWare, and would love to keep an OS image stashed this way for use in the future for database recovery purposes. But my attempt with RHEL 5.1 and Xen 3.0.2 on it failed to do a clean OpenServer 5.0.6 installation. That's partly why I want a 5.0.7 license to hang onto. (I'm going to test the 2-month demo, but I'd rather have a permanent license for upgrading the last server and imaging it permanently.)
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