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- From: marks@mgse.UUCP (Mark Seiffert)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Subject: Re: Xenix considered harmful (was Re: SCO support - a success story)
- Message-ID: <1501@mgse.UUCP>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 05:33:06 GMT
- References: <9208290845.AA18903@dynamix.com> <BtsG0n.50u@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
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- In article <BtsG0n.50u@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
- >In article <9208290845.AA18903@dynamix.com> david@dynamix.com (David L Jarvis) writes:
- >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.
-
- Not my world. Xenix is fine, especially when I am installing a
- system were there will only be eight or less terminals, typically
- one or two. Why do I need Unix and all of its baggage? Most of
- the small systems are SINGLE user, just the console.
- For some systems, one or two terminal will suffice, we need Xenix
- for communications and sometimes for a second or third terminal.
- The photography place down the street uses it for Real World
- accounting, and maybe four terminals. A former business partner
- had three SCO Xenix systems, two with only one user, the console,
- the third had three users. The alternative in his instance may have
- been a Novell system, but he would have to had re-write his application
- for insurance adjusters from scratch in another language. We have another
- customer that is thinking about putting systems in two other stores,
- each with one or two terminals.
-
- Why should customers be forced to switch to a more complex and more
- expensive system, both in hardware and software, when they don't need
- to? I feel that SCO Xenix is still a viable product and has a unique
- spot in the market place, small systems for small companies. I feel that
- in many instances selling a customer SCO Unix for one or two terminals
- is like selling a user a 486-50 with a SVGA just so they can do their
- accounting, it's overkill.
-
- Mark Seiffert
-
- >
- >(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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- Mark Seiffert, Metairie, LA.
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