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- From: larry@trauma.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
- Subject: Re: opinions on unix systems
- Message-ID: <Bry5A9.KEE@trauma.rn.com>
- Organization: Gator Conferencing Systems - 219-289-0777 - 6 lines
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- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 13:25:20 GMT
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- barker@enel.ucalgary.ca (Scott Barker) writes:
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- >- SCO is very good, has excellent support, but has numerous incompatibilities
- >- Dell is probably the "best", but their support is very poor
- >- Interactive/Solaris may be the new up and coming product to buy
- >- all three offer excellent, inexpensive upgrading packages
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- SCO's upgrade path is very expensive -- someone on the net was complaining
- recently about SCO's update from ODT 1.0 to ODT 2.0 (with all the options)
- costs just about as much as Dell's SVR4.
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- According to talk here, several previous SCO fans have (or will be)
- jumping off the SCO bandwagon after SCO announced the ODT update pricing..
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