think about how well your current system is working, and even if it may be a little slow, is it really worth spending X amount to speed it up, in all seriousness that is all you are doing. all applications, everything installed to the windows clients stays exactly the same, Linux or SCO.
BTW, there are many ways you can speed up your network other then replacing your server,
the Clients them selves, it costs about 200 to build a e3300 celeron computer with 2 gb ram, build up some computers install win xp, you WILL Notice massive speed increase.
upgrade your Hub to a Switch, upgrade your 10/100 Switch to a 1000, even though the NIC in the server is only 10/100 you are still massively increasing your network bandwith!
You can also replace your harddrive in your sco server! that will speed it up tons!
i have a guide on this blog that goes over how you would do that.
Here is the deal:
(From what i have found) genuine limitations with current SCO servers:
-You are limited to IDE when it comes to main boot drive
SATA is not supported
-You are limited to PCI 10/100 NIC, and pretty much only a INTEL or 3COM one at that
- The File system is not journalated, so this means power failures are much more painful with the sco system
- there is a SCSI Adaptec 29160 card in there, have not tried to boot from it, might work?
if you can deal with these limitations, witch i am , i am sure you can too!
unless you like spending money... :)
Then just make sure you keep your system powered up, running smoothly, HOOKED to a APC 1000 watt+ or something alike!
Never do a hard boot, always do a " powerdwn " from the login window if you must take the server down for any reason at all!
every time you do a hardboot, you have about a 20% chance it will not come back up!
if you do a hardboot while its trying to fix the file system(from a previous hardboot), then you have a 75% chance its not going to come back up at all...
yes it is that fragile , don't say i didn't warn you!
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