Hi everybody

In the company we have the project of implementing Baan on Linux with Oracle 9i (currently running on HP-UX).

We want to start testing this environment and we have available an HP 9000 rp4440 server with PA-RIC processor for this test.

First question: Does anyone have Linux on PA-RiSC processors?..What linux distribution?

Second question: Does anyone have Baan c4 IV on Linux?... Can you share your experience?.

Thank you very much, any response will be appreciated

Hi Sergio,

For Linux on PA-RISC architecture, please refer to the PARISC-Linux (http://www.parisc-linux.org/) website.

Hi,

Linux is officially supported from Infor for the following distributions:

x86 Suse Linux SLES /RedHat 3764

We have running BaanIV and ERPLn with Oracle9i on SLES9 since some years and are very satisfied with stability and performance. Hardware is HP Proliant ML570.

Hi Sergio,

we are running Baan c4 (tbase) with Suse SLS8 since october 2004.
We were nonplused how easy the porting went.
Users called us "that the system was broke" and "obviously doing nothing" - response times had decreased enormously.

From our experiences: better port today than tomorrow :-)

regards

Norbert

Thanks for your response

I have a license of Red Hat Enterprise AS 2.1, do you think it´s neccesary to upgrade to Red Ht Ent AS 5 ?

I would Install Orace 9.i and Baan IV c4

Thank you

Check the technical notes of the portingset you are going to use. That document describes which versions of the OS and/or RDBMS is supported.

Please note that Oracle9 is no longer supported .....

Regards,
Han

Hello,
This year we have moved from hp9000/unix to intel/red hat (ES 4.5) (Dell Poweredge 2950) without problems and a great performance improvement.

Also moved from Oracle 9i to Oracle 10g R2. We also cut down the maintenenace cost from our servers.

The ugly part: To start the migration the review and instalation of all the RPM's of Red Hats was a nigthmare, it took us 3 days to have the environment ready to migrate the production environment and the database.

Hope this helps.

Hello Sergio,
This is a document that may be help you.

Regards.

Thank you mig28mx

Mig:

I read your document and I find it very usefull.

I have some questions...

You mention you installed RHEL version 4.5 (although document says RedHat v1.1) .

I installed lastest version 5.4 and comparing the installed rpm´s with the document I find that most of them have a higher version than document´s.

for example:

Document : gcc-4.1.1-52.el5
My RedHat: gcc-4.1.2-46.el5

Document : glibc-common-2.5-12
My RedHat: glibc-common-2.5-42 (x86_64)

And as these ones, they are many with the same case.

Do you think I can consider these rpm´s are done?

And something else I noticed is that I don´t have none of the rpm´s that end with .rpm ... do you know what exactly are they?

Thank you

Sergio

Hello Sergio,
Yes the RH version on my install is 4.5 ES, the version 1.1 refers to the document version.

The rpm extension is a typo error. I mean, the extension of all the rpm´s packages is rpm. But when you query the packages you will see only the filenames without rpm extension.

If you reviewed the metalink note, you will notice that that version is the sufficent but not necesary. This mean, if you have a higher version you can try to continue, but in my experience, specially with the C++ compliler libreries, that version its a must.

Hope this helps.