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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!destroyer!mudos!mju
- From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
- Subject: Xenix considered harmful (was Re: SCO support - a success story)
- Message-ID: <BtsG0n.50u@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 08:38:45 GMT
- References: <9208290845.AA18903@dynamix.com>
- Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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- In article <9208290845.AA18903@dynamix.com> david@dynamix.com (David L Jarvis) writes:
- >wow what a surprise ... especially after a sales rep told me there
- >definitely wouldn't be and I should start selling more unix and even moving
- >xenix ppl to unix ... guess you never really can trust salespeople
-
- Well, that's good advice even if Xenix is going to be supported
- forever. I'm sure I'll get flamed for this -- especially in the SCO
- Xenix newsgroup -- but I don't think Xenix is an appropriate product
- for new installations anymore. SCO should definitely keep supporting
- its existing customers through bugfixes and new (bugfix) releases, but
- I don't think SCO should expend any effort adding new features to
- Xenix, and I don't think SCO resellers should recommend Xenix as a
- solution to customers who don't already have an installed base of
- Xenix machines. People who are already on Xenix should not be forced
- to move to Unix, but they should be gently encouraged to make the leap
- at an appropriate time. For example, when they're considering an
- upgrade from Xenix 2.3.2 to Xenix 2.3.4; or when they're considering
- getting a new hard drive.
-
- Face it, folks. The world is moving towards POSIX and other standards
- more every day. With this in mind, it just doesn't make sense to
- choose a bastardized SVR3-wannabe for new installations. The falling
- price of hardware has made all but irrelevant the consideration that
- Xenix runs in less RAM and takes less CPU horsepower than Unix. Xenix
- no longer has any real reason to exist, except for the people that
- have an existing Xenix installation.
-
- (Naturally, my views do not represent those of my employer, his
- sister, or his sister's dog. Copywrong 1992. All rights reversed.
- My lawyers can beat up your lawyers.)
-
- --
- Marc Unangst | Real men don't make backups. Real men never
- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | accidentally delete files that they're going
- | to need later.
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