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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!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: <BtznH6.Ez@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 06:03:05 GMT
- References: <9209010926.AA25624@dynamix.com> <BtxqGy.1zF@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1189@consult.UUCP>
- Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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- In article <1189@consult.UUCP> bob@consult.UUCP (Bob Willey CDP ) writes:
- >Actually he does!! He is putting in what the customer NEEDS and not
- >a lot of extras that they will probably never use or need.
-
- My point was that he said he "never even considered Unix." Now, how
- could he possibly know if Unix was or was not appropriate if he never
- even considered it?
-
- >Whoaa..... I have modems on EVERY SCO Xenix site out there, with NO
- >problems.
-
- Well, he said that Xenix was appropriate for customers who had no
- networking or security needs. Modems are a form of networking, and as
- you mention, they work fine. But putting a modem on a computer and
- leaving security turned off is just about as much of a security risk
- as putting the root password in /etc/issue.
-
- > And as far as shrinkwrapped software, there is probably more
- >out there for SCO Xenix than SCO UNIX (this may change). We use
- >Lotus 123, WordPerfect 5x, WordPerfect Office, Realworld, Cougar,
- >TruFax, Call Tracker, The Medical Manager and many others....
-
- Yes, those are all available in Xenix versions. But pretty soon (it's
- starting to happen already), software companies are going to want to
- use Unix-specific features. And when that happens, a lot of the
- smaller companies are going to ditch Xenix entirely and just put out a
- Unix version. Can you get FrameMaker for Xenix? Or Corel Draw?
-
- >>senior this year.
- > ^^^^^^
-
- Your point being? Or do you feel that I'm unqualified to participate
- in this discussion, because I'm still in high school?
-
- --
- 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."
-