In article <8xWq6zR6gjB@zocki.toppoint.de>,
Rainer Zocholl <UseNet-Posting-Nospam-74308-@zocki.toppoint.de> wrote:
>(Bela Lubkin) 08.11.03 in /comp/unix/sco/misc:
>
>>Rainer Zocholl wrote:

>>> Maybe you like to have a look at "A.B.I." (see Tony's webpages)
>>> and can host you application under linux?

>>> Maybe it would be less "expensive" to migrade to Linux and
>>> Postgresql? And: What do think will happen to SCO next year?
>>> I remember very good that they once stopped development on
>>> OSR5 some time ago and resumed it with 5.0.7 mainly to introduce
>>> a new paying model...

>>OpenServer development has not stopped at any time in the
>>last 10 years.

>Yepp "stopped" was a too hard word.

>But reduced to a minimum. (In 2000 you must have had the feeling
>that they have decided (internal) to let OSR die.)

I have no idea what they plan, but SCO was the last company to
release a SysVR4 Unix - and that was Unixware. The OSR5 is
based on SysVR3 but with nay SysVR4 things moved back to it, but
there are some things that make no sense [from my POV] to even
attempt moving them from a VR4 to a VR3.

>>Right now, development is ramping up as we prepare to deliver
>>the features promised at SCO Forum 2003.

>Approx. 2 years ago i only found on the hardware lists (HCL)
>machines which were at least 2 years not available anymore...no
>modern machines.

>Too i would assume that a "dedicated" high end server operating
>system should support 1Gbit ethernet in 2000. 3 years ago the
>only way to use 1Gb was an (illegal) driver from the 3com site.
>Intel 1Gb was not supported at all. The 1Gb drivers by SCO are
>released no in Aug 2003! wow... approx. 5 Years development for
>a simple ethernet driver. But well, you are right, it is not
>stopped...;-)

>The OS had a lot of trouble with modern fast CPUs.
>But that's clear: The HCL tests stopped in (approx) 1998 at 200MHz,
>it's obvious that they never have tested > 400GHz machines
>until the customers began to complain...

When some of the limits of OSR5 became too much for a client I had
on that platform I migrated them into the Unixware 7. Limits went
away, performanc went up. They got big enough to hire anther
person internally so I don't go back there anymore.

Moving from a 300MHz world into a Dual Xeon with faster drives
took one major weekly process from 2 hours to under 10 minutes.
The performance was not all from the HW upgrades, but a more
efficient OS.

Bill

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