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[ Article crossposted from biz.sco.general ]
[ Author was Christer Johansen ]
[ Posted on Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:39:44 GMT ]

I need some advices from the net on this one.

We have an MS-DOS application that needs to be accessed from both
X-terminals and PC's running MS-DOS. The MS-DOS application must
be installed on a server as it depends on a sentral database.
(Or at least the database must be installed on a server).

The X-terminals are connected to either a Sparc Server running SunOS
or a i486 running SCO ODT 2.0.

Some of the PC workstations that needs to access the application is
running Novell Netware and some is running PC-Interface.

I'm thinking of installing the application on one of our i486 machines
that is running SCO ODT 2.0. In that way I believe the workstations
that is running PC-Interface can connect directly to that server
(it is running the PCI server) and start the application from there.

It should also be possible to NFS mount the application directory to
the servers running SunOS and ODT 2.0, and the X-terminal users on
these machines should then be able to access the application using
SoftPC on the Sparc Servers and vp/ix on the servers running ODT 2.0.

My problem then seems to be the PC workstations that is running Novell
Netware. My local SCO dealer told me that SCO was in the prosess of
porting Portable Netware, but then they laid down the project for some
reason.

I guess I could install PCI on the PC's running Netware (I know they
can coexist), but the pricetag for doing this seems to be quite high
as I'll need one PC-Interface license for each PC and there's a lot
of them.....

My questions are:

1> Does anyone know if any 3rd party developers have a version of
   Portable Netware for SCO?

2> If no to question 1, do you have a suggestion for an alternative
   setup. Maybe UnixWare (which I know very little about) as a server
   will do the trick?


Thanks in advance
Christer Johansen
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Christer Johansen, Tandberg Data A/S, PO Box 9, Korsvoll, N-0808 OSLO 8, NORWAY
Phone +47 (0)2 189090, dir +47 (0)2 189527  Fax +47 (0)2 189550
Internet: chjo@tdata.no    IEA: ibmmail(26692)
X.400: C=no; A=telemax; P=tdata; O=tdd; S=chjo