Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 13:12:26 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Help, I've been SCOed! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961208130624.374A-100000@hamby1> In-Reply-To: <199612082044.NAA29392@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Does anyone have background info on these old XENIX binaries? > > Yes. > > > Will FreeBSD or Linux run them? > > No. > > [description of XENIX format deleted] Thanks for the info, but for your information, I just downloaded the latest iBCS package for Linux and it does claim Beta-level support for Xenix binaries (and alpha support for Xenix-286 binaries!). It also had freely distributable versions of the common ELF shared libraries, which will be useful if we get SVR4 compatibility. FWIW, Linux ran the programs I was interested in (FoxPro and something called MView) perfectly, but those were COFF binaries. But I won't tell my client to switch to Linux because it doesn't provide any sort of long-term solution for their database (moving it to something real like Oracle). Right now they want to move over to Windows NT, with NT Workstation on all the clients, accessing the database through a VB front-end, probably. The only alternative I could see is running UnixWare on the server, which claims excellent Oracle tpm/C ratings, which should also have enough SCO compatibility to run FoxPro in the meantime. Either way they'd be using NT on the clients because they also want to run some Windows software (Goldmine). The only problem with that is the high price of UnixWare, the lack of upgrade pricing from OpenServer, and the feeling among the company that they've been burned once by SCO already. -- Jake
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