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- From: lee@dlpco.dlpco.COM (Lee Penn )
- Subject: Re: CD's and SCO NFS
- Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
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- Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 15:33:55 GMT
- Message-ID: <9212201038.aa26743@dlpco.dlpco.COM>
- Sender: news@xenitec.on.ca (xenitec.on.ca News Administrator)
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- Be warned. Everex just announced that they are lossing money like
- crazy. I cannot believe that ESIX will be on their list of things
- to keep as I doubt that it can be profitable for them given their
- current problems.
-
- Their stock has dropped from about $1.50/share to less than $0.50
- per share in the last week.
-
- Before you consider ESIX, be really careful.
-
- >donl@worldbridge.com writes:
- >> We use ODT 2.0 and got an upgrade SLS from SCO for the CD-ROM drive. As I
- >> remember, it was still beta code. It should be well into production and
- >> available now. I'm unsure as to the NON-ODT versions of TCP/IP and NFS.
- >> It runs just fine here. We mount the CD to several machines.
-
- >Yes, it apparently can be done. However, our system is just over a year
- >old, and I'll have to upgrade everything in order to run NFS 1.2. To
- >upgrade the OS, DS, TCP/IP and NFS will cost us almost $1100 from SCO.
- >It'd be cheaper for me to buy a CD-ROM drive for every PC!
-
- >On the other hand, ESIX has a competitive upgrade available for $508, and
- >complete BSD/386 costs under $1000 -- including X and source.
-
- >I'm happy with SCO's tech support, hardware compatability and performance,
- >but their upgrade pricing sucks rocks. Right now I'm sufficiently pissed
- >off that I'm seriously considering switching.
-
- >[ \tom haapanen "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]
- >[ tomh@wes.on.ca "trust the programmer" -- ansi c standard ]
- >[ waterloo engineering software "to thine own self be true" -- polonius ]
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