Progress 7.3 & 8.3

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tcd1016

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Hello,

My company (where I just recently started) is running to Progress Apps (7.3 & 8.3) on a SCO server. They are looking to upgrade and split the apps across two servers. Any recommendations on which o/s to go with for Progress versions of that age? We will be eventually be upgrading to the most recent versions of Progress but need to get some houskeeping things in order first.

Thanks.

-TD
 
Well, if you can (from both a technical and business point of view) stick with SCO to save yourself some money and hassles.

If you change your OS you will have to change your Progress licenses so they run on the new OS. This will most definately cost some $$ (depending on the number of users etc this can in fact get quite expensive). And with that you will of course have to figure out whether or not Progress still ships 7.3 and 8.3 at all, I am not 100% up to date with when these will be - or have been - declared retired.

Anyway, that's my 2 cents worth...
 
v7 and v8 have been retired by Progress. You won't be able to get versions of them if you switch OSes.

In terms of cleanup, I'd move your v7 app to v8. Then you have consitency for moving forward.

Then, ensure that your v8 databases are multi-volume because you need to do that to move to a v9 Db.

Then moving to v9 is nothing more than running the conv89 routine (supplied by Progress) on your DB, testing your app in v9 and (if needed) moving Oses.

Seems simple. And typically it is .... unless you've used something pretty obscure or utilizing OS calls in your code that are OS specific.
 
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