Re: Need help ! <<From Informix/SCO Unix to Informix/WinNT>>

In <01bc4414$e682d5a0$27801fc3@jeusitlk> "blueprnt" <blueprnt@mbox.vol.it> writes: >Dear Sirs, >I hope someone can reply me for the following... >We would like to up-date our informations sistem, based on an Informix >application, actually running under an old release of SCO Unix. Our target >should be to integrate the personal computing environment in order to >provide to our user to share on the lan all the aplications both windows >(MS Office) and the apllication based on Informix.One of our consultant >sugested us to move Informix from SCO Unix to Windows Nt platform. >In anycase we should have to up-date our system but I would like to know >what could be the problems in moving our Informix procedure from SCO Unix >to WinNt with Win95 clients.Will we have to modify our procedure code due >the differences between the two O.S. and especially taking into >consideration that the graphical interface of the two environments it is >different? You better be careful here. If you're application is written in 4GL, you dont have a migration path from Unix to NT (other than rewriting it in C/S such as NewEra et al.). I've seen lots of sites with SCO as the server for both the Informix apps, and the shared directories for the Office documents and databases. It really is quite simple with a product like Samba, or a commercial PC based TCP suite like Esker's TUN or FTP's PCTCP. Depends on what level of integration you require for the Office products (just shared directories or what?), but your move to NT may be a little premature (not to mention costly if the application needs to be rewritten). Bryan Tonnet batonnet@zeta.org.au