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- From: shane@cs.sunysb.edu (Shane Bouslough)
- Subject: Re: UnixWare, Destiny, SVR4.2 -- Is it time yet?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.203910.20593@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:39:10 GMT
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- Richard Warner (rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu) wrote:
-
- : ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga) writes:
- :
- : >One funny thing about getting information from UNIVEL. The only way to
- : >get it is through a fax call-back system. No ftp, no e-mail, not even
- : >a bulletin board. Kind of odd for a market leader in the networking
- : >field.
- :
- : Your logic escapes me. What does being the market leader in
- : departmental/campus local area networks (Novell, sensu strictu, not
- : UNIVEL) have to do with Internet (ftp), e-mail, or BBS? And, there
- : are other ways of getting the info; but since the other locations
- : are run by Novell (not UNIVEL, which is NOT Novell - only Novell
- : owned) the information is not always in the obvious places.
-
- Not so fast Kemosabe. UNIVEL is without question positioning themselves
- as a supplier of PC and *UNIX* based solutions for networking/file server
- systems. They are probably the premier OEM for USL Destiny. As such, it
- is not unreasonable at all to assume they would supply the resources
- normally associated with such an OS technology, e.g. e-mail.
-
- Last, and perhaps least, every tom-dick-and-harry computer company on
- the planet has a BBS, it is perfectly reasonable to assume a company as
- large as Novell or 'Univel' could cough up the $$$ for a PC running some
- PD BBS so people can get Univel information. It would probably have cost
- less than their fax call-back thing to boot.
-
- -Shane
-
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