From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 1 22:06:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA02256 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Nov 1997 22:06:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from ns1.hiper.net (ns1.hiper.net [207.137.172.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA02251 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 1997 22:06:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from randyk@ccsales.com) Received: from ntrkcasa (pool38.hiper.net [207.137.172.38]) by ns1.hiper.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA06613; Sat, 1 Nov 1997 23:46:04 GMT Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19971101220619.017df680@ccsales.com> X-Sender: randyk@ccsales.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Sat, 01 Nov 1997 22:06:19 -0800 To: darnison@albury.net.au (Don Arnison), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Randy A. Katz" Subject: Re: dataflex and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199711020529.QAA18948@orac.albury.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Oh, gee, that's perfectly logical. If he's stupid enough to run it on NT then so be it. Just think, the guy's been running on Xenix for 10 years fine and NOW he's going to NT and not SCO...because perhaps he couldn't do it with FreeBSD. The upgrade to SCO from Xenix Costs less then NT Server...go figure. iBCS, from my experience, might run it...but he's not OURS to lose...he's yours so you'll need to boot it up, copy it over, and then try it. PS - Good luck converting those dataflex programs over unless you're pretty good at another database language under FreeBSD already. Randy Katz At 05:38 AM 11/2/97 GMT, Don Arnison wrote: >I have a potential customer who wants to upgrade from a 10 year old installation of Xenix and home grown Dataflex applications. He would like to stick with his applications if possible. He is shying away from SCO due to the cost. Is there an opportunity here to either convert dataflex applications to some database application running under FreeBSD, or is it possible to run Xenix/SCO Dataflex under FreeBSD in IBCS2 mode? If we can't do this, I'm aftraid we've lost him to NT! > >