W dniu 2019-03-11 o 15:12, John McKown pisze:
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 8:57 AM R.S. <r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl> wrote:
W dniu 2019-03-11 o 13:37, Elardus Engelbrecht pisze:
John McKown wrote:
What would you do if they insist to use database without paying for
database license?
The database in question has a permanent license, so that it not a
problem.
Excellent. Do you need to pay the vendor every x period? Or is that
license just an once-off annoyance?
The problem is that it is running on a old Windows server; which is
being decommissioned. And the software apparently will not run a current
Windows server.
I got burned by a similar situation. Some hardware broken down, but
luckily I could scavenge some 'newish' hardware. I tried to install windoze
2008, XP and 98, only got a nasty BSOD during initial phase of installation
despite fiddling around with BIOS settings.
Installing a newer windoze worked, but I soon ran into compatibility
issues, just like you.
So, if your windoze server's hardware crash, you may have some recovery
problem (hopefully AFTER you retired ... <grin> )
In that case you should be able to run current Windows on new x86
(actually x64) server and run some VM hypervisor (i.e. VirtualBox) and
WindowsXP under the VM.
License should also be no problem.
A good idea. But the Windows people simply refuse to do it. They have been
told that the old Windows is a security risk and it must be decommissioned.
No option. If it causes the mainframe people any problems that's just their
tough luck. But we still want those reports! In any case, the SMF 70-1 data
along with an in-house written routine seems to be able to get the data
that my boss wants. And it is much more reliable than the Windows
application.
Well, "no means no" and leaves no room for discussion.
However such cases should be recognized and *isolated* by
network/windows guys.
It's easy to say NO, but sometimes we have to deal with out-of-date HW
and SW.
No old Windows version would be dangerous when it works isolated.
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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