From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 3 01:08:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA19310 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 01:08:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from top.worldcontrol.com ([209.66.69.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA19297 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 01:08:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@worldcontrol.com) From: brian@worldcontrol.com Received: (qmail 2786 invoked by uid 100); 3 Nov 1997 09:08:13 -0000 Message-ID: <19971103010804.11974@top.worldcontrol.com> Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 01:08:04 -0800 To: Don Arnison Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dataflex and FreeBSD References: <199711020529.QAA18948@orac.albury.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: <199711020529.QAA18948@orac.albury.net.au>; from Don Arnison on Sun, Nov 02, 1997 at 05:53:38AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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! I was able to run Dataflex under FreeBSD IBSC2 emulation. In fact, when I converted it over to a FreeBSD machine, all the users were wondering around exclaiming how it was running 10 times faster, eventhough it was the same hardware. It was some time ago that I did this, so I may have difficulty remembering the details. I converted from SCO to FreeBSD because SCO was failing due to a bug we had discovered but which SCO intended to do nothing about. FreeBSD didn't have the problem. Funny when an App runs better under a emulation environment in a different OS, than it does under its native OS. -- brian