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- From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
- Subject: Re: Linux v. Coherent: Comments
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.160451.13694@netcom.com>
- Organization: Messina Software
- References: <1264@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu> <1ic3o7INNmep@uwm.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:04:51 GMT
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- rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) writes:
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- >'out-of-the-box'. With Linux, you've got a whole net-full of consultants
- >who know various aspects of Linux inside and out (as opposed to the one or
- >few who *really* know Coherent). They're even fairly friendly and helpful!
-
- Let's not get into OS wars here. It's silly, let's leave it to
- comp.editors. Both systems are great, I am sure. As to consultants,
- Coherent also has professional tech support which is simply
- outstanding (Thanks, Jim!). Coherent and Linux seem to be aimed at
- different markets, and I find it very positive. I need a small
- commercial UNIX-clone for commercial work for the current project, and
- COherent seems to fit my bill just fine. In the future I may have a
- need for Linux.
-
- >Maybe some Coherent-guru would care to expound upon its virtues as compared
- >to Linux? ...but I really don't think they're even in the same league.
-
- I can't understand this attitude. Imagine a carpenter who would only
- use one hammer for everything, using the same logic that the rest was
- not in the same league because they were not as heavy and the handle
- was not as long. OS is not a ^%&$, the tasks it is applied to are too
- varied to use one measure. You still haven't learned it?
-
- t.
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