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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Dell Unix..
- Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:21:44 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9207241321.45@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1992Jul17.214224.5589@dellunix.dell.com> <Brov7I.8tF@ef2007.efhd.ford.com> <9207201801.05@rmkhome.UUCP> <1992Jul22.174516.22924@compu.com>
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- In article <1992Jul22.174516.22924@compu.com> fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home) writes:
- >rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
- >>Sure, you can buy a less polished version of SVR4, and spend your time at
- >>church keeping it running.
- >
- >Whatever V4 has to do with running a UNIX system at a church escapes my sense
- >of logic. We have over 200 such systems running in churches without any
- >sysadmins or general computer knowledge etc - just your ordinary
- >volunteer/secretary/housewife/minister/priest type of user who wouldn't know
- >an operating system from a prompt as they never see either.
- >
- >They all run on that nasty SCO environment which we've all heard so much about
- >here in past times (it's Dell's turn today).
-
- SCO, warts and all, is a fairly stable environment. I have clients who
- use SCO systems for database applications. They know how to log in and
- start up the app, and how to use email. A pc running SCO with 5 or 6
- terminals seems to be a good reliable office machine.
-
- >And by the way, these non-computer types read news (our own cdi.* groups),
- >write and read email, and generally feel at home with their systems as if they
- >were designed for churches - which they were, of course. It makes for all the
- >difference in the world to let a vertical VAR handle all that computer stuff
- >and let users be users and do their church thing. We've spent around 20
- >man/years at the back end so that life would be easy at the front end.
- >
- >Personally, I've never believed in teaching users about computers and
- >operating systems - confuses the hell out of them. It's tough enough
- >remembering all the things you can do with the application. :-)
-
- Which is why you give them a stable UNIX product. You could run your
- stuff with Dell SVR4 and expect as good or better reliability. If you
- were to give your clients Consensys SVR4, you might have to spend a lot
- more time dealing with os flakes and bugs.
-
- --
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
-