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- From: jbayer@ispi.COM (Jonathan Bayer)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Subject: Re: Xenix considered harmful (was Re: SCO support - a success story)
- Message-ID: <2452@ispi.COM>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 18:32:29 GMT
- References: <9209010926.AA25624@dynamix.com> <BtxqGy.1zF@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1189@consult.UUCP> <BtznH6.Ez@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
-
- >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?
-
- He could know, use, and even install Unix at some customer sites, and then
- "never even considered Unix." for other customers. He knows his customer's
- needs and was (and is) able to make informed decisions based on that knowledge.
-
- >>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.
-
- Define what you mean by "security", please. SCO Unix has a C2 level of
- security, which gets in the way a lot of the time. If you use proper
- password controls Xenix will have as much security as many other versions
- of Unix that are in the field, and I am including much larger Unix
- installations in this statement.
-
- Also, there is plenty of networking available for Xenix. I have configured
- (not recently) a Xenix box to talk to a SCO Unix box as well as DOS
- boxes, all on the same network.
-
- >>>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?
-
- Just that you don't have has much experience as other professionals who
- have been working in the field for many years. Sometimes it takes
- plain old experience to get exposure to many different environments. It
- is a bit difficult to know and understand other environments without
- actually using them.
-
-
-
- JB
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