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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4
- Subject: Re: It's Time for a Shakedown (was Re: A few answers to Dell Unix FAQ)
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- Date: 9 Jan 93 02:29:51 GMT
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- >Univel is far from perfect. To its credit, the company has developed a
- >entry-level desktop version that will probably have a street price of
- >about $375US, which is less than anything available based on AT&T/USL
- >code.
-
- Except, presumably, for UnixWare, which will, as far as I know, be based
- on AT&T/USL code, and which will, from what you say, probably have a
- street price identical to that of entry-level desktop version you
- mention. :-) :-) :-)
-
- (I.e., I presume you didn't intend to imply that what Univel developed
- *wasn't* based on AT&T/USL code....)
-
- >My premise here is that the comptetition/choice issue is now larger than
- >"this R4 versus that R4", it's "UNIX versus NT" or "R4 UNIX versus Solaris
- >and SCO", and that requires companies with at least a fighting chance of
- >taking on SCO, Sun and Microsoft in the marketing trenches.
-
- Actually, it'd be Somewhat Nice if Solaris 2.x didn't become *too*
- different from other SVR4-based releases - i.e., if they're perceived as
- "another variant" from the standpoint of many developers (both of
- commercial apps and of people putting stuff in "comp.sources.*"), I
- think they've screwed up; the whole point behind the original Sun/AT&T
- deal was to *reduce* the number of ways in which UNIX variants
- differed....
-