On 6 Mar, 00:04, "Martin Rubenstein" <ma...@sbohp.com> wrote:
> I have a medical practice with all of our billing, appointments, etc.
> running on a proprietary software called Script Systems by Mysis. *The
> server is a 4 year old IBM eServer with OS 5.07 as OS.. *I am concerned
> about the need to replace the server before a hardware failure creates a
> crisis, as I figure most hardware is good for about 5 years and we are near
> that. *Mysis would prefer (naturally) that I migrate to a different software
> they offer that is GUI instead of character based, although they still
> support our product. *The OS on our server is OS 5.07. *How realistic is it
> that I stick to our prior method of buying an Intel based server and load OS
> 5.07 and our data myself, and have Mysis still do software support for their
> product (but not hardware or OS) given Sco's financial problems. *Our
> vender's solution is considerably more expensive, but has the advantaage
> that they will support the new hardware and software. *All thoughts
> appreciated.
>
> Marty Rubenstein, MD

Virtualize it on VMware Workstation 6 or better. Get away fromt the
hardware compatibility problems of a company in bankruptcy and an out
of date OS. Any contemporary server should be able to run this quite
comfortably under Linux or even Windows: I'm doing this right now.