SCO

Sent you a pm - thanks

Hi,

I also need the 5.0.6 iso, can someone help? Want to virtualize and keep our licenses.

Thanks in advance

@sopela123.......yep, can do. Any idea how?

well, situation is as follows:

Hi

we are a very small company in spain, we have a very old (about 20 years) compaq server that has sco 5.0.6 installed and that runs some cobol microfocus homemade applications.

that computer will very likely fail (i am still amazed it has not failed already) and we would like to virtualize it.

We have a windows server 2008 r2 and have thought of using hyper-v to do it.

but we have no money to spend in this project, we paid big money for the licenses of the sco server and for the windows 2008 and I can not afford to spend more money on this.

We don't have any of the installation disks or any hardcopy of the licenses of the sco system, plus that system was installed by a collegue that regretfully passed away a few years ago, I hace some advanced knowledge on microsoft systems but very basic on unix.

I would like to virtualize the sco system as it is now, is that possible?
Any help greatly welcome and tapas on me on your next visit to Spain.

Thanks in advance.

@sopela123.....

What I meant was do you have a destination that I can upload the iso image to? If not, there may be others on this thread that can allow you to download it from their server. How can I get the image to you?

In response to the questions in your last post, I have excellent but ancient knowledge of SCO but I have never virtualised it. I'm not sure that you can virtualise without having the original licence keys. Again, perhaps someone on this thread who has done it can answer. Alternatively, instead of just asking for the media why not start a brand new thread on this forum asking how to do it.

Also, have you considered swapping SCO for a free Linux distribution?

oh, sure, sorry...

pls try to ftp to (deleted)

user: deleted
password: deleted

thanks a lot

There are alternatives.
1. Use Linux and Opencobol OpenCOBOL | Free Development software downloads at SourceForge.net
2. Install Opencobol on your Windows Server, and migrate your programs and data.
Migration means writing a program to unload each Microfocus file to plain text and an Opencobol program to read the plain text and create ISAM files, and modifying the syntax of your existing code to suit.
Do you have anyone that can write cobol?
How many lines of cobol code is there?