SCO and HP

[Joe Chasan]

Does anybody know if HP has officially dropped support for SCO?

Their new servers are not supported by the existing EFS/drivers, which
haven't been updated in a LONG time.

There are a handful of workarounds on SCO's TA database that basically
involved buying new server and swapping out cards and built-in stuff
to older ones to get it to work with the older drivers.

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-Joe Chasan- Magnatech Business Systems, Inc.
joe - at - magnatechonline -dot- com Hicksville, NY - USA
http://www.MagnatechOnline.com Tel.(516) 931-4444/Fax.(516) 931-1264

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Joe Chasan typed (on Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 04:22:44PM -0400):

| Does anybody know if HP has officially dropped support for SCO?
|
| Their new servers are not supported by the existing EFS/drivers, which
| haven't been updated in a LONG time.
|
| There are a handful of workarounds on SCO's TA database that basically
| involved buying new server and swapping out cards and built-in stuff
| to older ones to get it to work with the older drivers.

Yeah, HP backed away from SCO about a year ago.

--
JP

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Oct 30, 4:22 pm, Joe Chasan <j...@magnatechonline.com> wrote:
> Does anybody know if HP has officially dropped support for SCO?
>
> Their new servers are not supported by the existing EFS/drivers, which
> haven't been updated in a LONG time.
>
> There are a handful of workarounds on SCO's TA database that basically
> involved buying new server and swapping out cards and built-in stuff
> to older ones to get it to work with the older drivers.  

Unless you need high end performance, virtualize the old servers.
Simply install Linux or something that will run VMWare, even buy
VMWare ESX if you need that last ounce of virtualized performance, and
use VMWare on the HP hardware. Given SCO's bankruptcy, this is
probably the only sane way to preserve such systems.

To migrate instead of rebuilding the OS, look into the "Lone-Tar"
toolsuite.