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JonathanWilson
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I'm currently involved in moving from HP-UX to RHEL. Ideally you only want to be changing one thing at a time, so if you have 11.7 on HP-UX then you should go to 11.7 on Linux. After that work on moving to OE12. Unless you have an awesome QA team that loves testing. The problem with HP-UX OS is it's dead; there's no real world advantages over Linux these days. There's zero need to add HP-UX on top of a Linux stack for OpenEdge. OpenEdge's ABL means it should be easy to switch OS; only issue is a dump / load. Because OpenEdge's PROBKUP is "very stupid" (TM) backup tool that can't create platform independent backups. So long as you have a good downtime window; it's just time consuming, there is PRO2 which will work for large DBs. I've tested Pro2 and it's something we'll use in the future on our large dbs when moving HP-UX to Linux. Since it can do trigger based replication without the need for our software team to write their own.
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