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- From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
- Subject: Re: Destiny X Dell, Esix, Microport etc.
- Organization: Somewhere just far enough out of Toronto
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:33:40 GMT
- Message-ID: <2A740945.6FC7@telly.on.ca>
- References: <14rvigINNsb8@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <14rvigINNsb8@agate.berkeley.edu>
- ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga) writes:
-
- >I've just read a review of USL's SVR4.2 in this week's OST. They seem
- >to confirm some of pre-release hype about Destiny. (And this comes from
- >a magazine that fell head over heels for NT). Does anybody have
- >an informed guess regarding other SVR4 vendors release plans for
- >products based on SVR4.2? It looks like they will be facing stiff
- >competition from Univell both in price and in features.
-
- I know ESIX committed early on to Solaris, but is re-evaluating the
- situation. The company does not want to plunge into both Solaris and
- R4.2, but wants to make sure it chooses what will be the best long-term
- path. As a source licencee of Solaris, ESIX would not be restricted by
- some of the claims presently made about it (ie, distribution only on CD-ROM).
- But there appear to be many desirable features in 4.2 which Solaris
- won't have (ie, swictable Motif and OL look-and-feel).
-
- Are there any comments on the net, based on the available knowledge,
- about the plusses and minuses of Solaris 2.0 vs. System V R4.2, from the
- viewpoint of a poptential source licensee?
-
- Where are they both in regard to Intel multiprocessing support?
-
- Will they be able to run each other's binaries? How about ODT apps??
-
- How good is their support for non-GUI (eg, Wyse 60) environments?
-
- And will Solaris have the level of SCO support now in 4.0.4?
-
- Just how much will the two packages differ internally, and from the
- user's and administrator's viewpoints?
-
- Will UNIX International be endorsing both as a long-term migration
- strategy, or only one?
-
- --
- Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
- evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!utzoo!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504
- Said Captain Jean-Luc Picard to the tailor at his machine: "Make it sew!"
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