[NCSA-discuss] SCO nfs

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Fri, 4 May 2012, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:

> Joe,
>
Hi Jeffrey. Thanks for your help.

> Seems like NFS would have been a standard feature,

I would have thought so. Back in the early '90's, even DOS 
3.3 had networking, pcnfs and (with DESQView) X (all from 
3rd parties, but you could get it).

I just got a call back from UnXis. There are two versions of 
SCO: the host version which has no networking and the 
enterprise version which has networking (and for SCO 
5.0.4, nfs v2).

The client will need a $1400 upgrade. I hate to recommend he 
spend that money. Ideally the client should move to Linux, 
except that their inhouse COBOL accounting package has about 
10man-yrs of code in it. That makes it at least a 500k$ 
accounting package. I expect it will require some porting. I 
wonder if clients realise how much money they spend on these 
applications and how they are tied to an ancient system with 
no easy upgrade path.

Joe

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