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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!wupost!gumby!destroyer!mudos!mju
- From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
- Subject: Re: Xenix considered harmful (was Re: SCO support - a success story)
- Message-ID: <BtxqGy.1zF@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 05:12:27 GMT
- References: <9209010926.AA25624@dynamix.com>
- Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
- Lines: 63
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- In article <9209010926.AA25624@dynamix.com> david@dynamix.com (David L Jarvis) writes:
- >anyone who's done BOTH Xenix and Unix already knows that, but what about
- >you? have you ever even done a Xenix system? ever used one? installed
- >one? what is your basis for the above statement? what is your experience
- >with SCO products? just how many Unix/Xenix systems have you put out?
- >are you even an authorized SCO reseller??? (perhaps you came to
-
- Boy, all those questions. Yes; yes; yes; personal experience
- and experience with customers; Xenix/286 2.2.1 and 2.2.3, Xenix/386
- 2.3.2 and 2.3.4, SCO ODT 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0, SCO Unix 3.2v2.0 and
- 3.2v4.0; too many to count; not personally, but I work in tech support
- for an APC.
-
- >for the benefit of ppl out there without a lot of SCO Unix/Xenix
- >experience, I'll rebut some of your statements ...
-
- How magnanimous of you.
-
- >I've upgraded plenty of 2.3.2 sites to 2.3.4 and never even considered
- >Unix,
-
- Glad to hear you have the best interests of your customer in mind.
-
- >solution that just flat out works, and THATS Xenix, the most mature and
- >stable product available today ... I won't even mention here that anyone
-
- What a sweeping statement. And you say *I* don't back my opinions
- up...
-
- >right, and the fact that Xenix CONSISTENTLY OUTPERFORMS the bulky, slow,
- >overgrown SVR4 kernel is meaningless
-
- I didn't know we were talking about SVR4. I though we were talking
- about SCO Unix, which is not SVR4 (and may never be, depending on who
- you listen to at SCO).
-
- > ... and if the client is NEVER
- >going to even consider networking or communications, and has NO security
- >needs whatsoever, and NO needs for compatibility with the rest of the Unix
- >world,
-
- You're right. I've never seen a client who was willing to lock
- themselves out of modems and shrinkwrapped software. But hey, if
- that's what you want, I guess you should buy Xenix.
-
- >speaking of your employer Marc ... tell us, what is it you do for a living?
- >are you out there every day installing and supporting Unix & Xenix systems?
-
- Well, since you asked...
-
- For the past two years, I've worked part-time and full-time at an SCO
- APC, doing hardware configuration, technical support (both telephone
- and on-site), system setups, system specifications, and so forth.
- During the times I was working there part-time, I was going to high
- school -- started at the beginning of my sophomore year, and I'll be a
- senior this year.
-
- So, what do you do for a living?
-
- --
- Marc Unangst | Real men don't use Windows. Real men use X.
- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | Only a real man would use a GUI where the
- | shift keys after "Alt" are "Super" and "Hyper."
-