Paul,

Nothing says that you can't have Novell and Linux co-existing on the
same network. Simply install Linux for the database server functions!
Leave the other functions where they are.

The Linux box does not have to be very big, in fact you can probably use
an old desktop and still have the database scream. While Linux can be a
challenge to install and administer, it does a very good job of
performing on less than optimal equipment.


Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Schmidt [mailto:paul@...]
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 12:53 PM
To: Leyne, Sean; ib-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ib-support] RE: [IB-Priorities] Netware

Sean:

On 5 Apr 2001, at 11:30, Leyne, Sean wrote:

> This isn't the best forum for this type of discussion, I think we
> should move this to the IB-Support list. Accordingly, I've
> cross-posted this reply to that the conversation can be picked up
> there.

Okay, consider it moved...

> A couple of comments about your idea.
>
> First, IB can't access non-local GDB files. The files must be stored
> on the computer running the IB server.

Oh crap, glad I didn't spend any real time on it :-)

> Second, once you have the Linux box installed, you wouldn't need to
> bother with the Netware box at all for IB purposes.

The problem, is that the Netware box does two things, first it serves
groupwise mail. and second it serves the old database (btrieve).
It's going to be ugly enough converting the data to the new system,
without trying to change the server OS at the same time. Since they
spent the required mucho dinari on the Netware licences, getting them
to throw that away, is about as unlikely as getting them to get
another machine big enough to handle the new database temporarily.

> Then again I may be completely out to lunch here, it wouldn't be the
> first time, but if I can save the client $10K it would be worth a
> consideration.

Okay, scratch that idea....

Paul
Paul Schmidt,
Tricat Technologies
Email: paul@...
Website: www.tricattechnologies.com