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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Subject: Re: SCO support - a success story
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.200824.11047@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 20:08:24 GMT
- References: <9208290845.AA18903@dynamix.com>
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- Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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- In article <9208290845.AA18903@dynamix.com>, david@dynamix.com (David L Jarvis) writes:
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- | > SCO says it will be fixed in the next release, so I guess that's a
- | > committment that there will /be/ a next release of Xenix, something I
- | > wouldn't have considered certain.
- |
- | 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
-
- I'm told by the person who sent me the mail message that the term "in
- the next release" did not imply that there was any definite committment
- to ever have such a release. And there will be an SLS "if there's
- sufficient demand." (from the voice mail message).
-
- I guess I don't have to budget for upgrades. I don't know if you can
- "never really trust" salepeople, but you sure look like a fool if you
- quote them.
-
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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