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- From: david@dynamix.com (David L Jarvis)
- Subject: Re: Xenix considered harmful (was Re: SCO support - a success story)
- Organization: SOFTWARE / DYNAMIX
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- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 92 9:04:41 EDT
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- >
- > In article <BtxqGy.1zF@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
- > >>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.
- >
- > 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.
-
- Well I must be doing something right Marc, my firm has grown and prospered
- every year since it's inception six years ago. (even thru the Gulf War and
- continuing recession)
- The best interests of the client are *always* our primary concern, and that
- means not selling them something they don't need and something thats not
- the best tool for the job.
- Not ONE SINGLE client has suffered by going Xenix instead of Unix.
- But you are digressing away from the point at hand:
- you made a statement that Xenix was no longer
- appropriate for *any* installations and had no place in the business world,
- and I argued that plenty of us are still doing new installations based on
- Xenix because clients don't always need everything (good and bad) that Unix
- will bring, and that Xenix is mature, stable, and has plenty of vendors
- still supporting it completely ... I haven't seen much from you to debate
- that yet ...
-
- > >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.
- >
- > Whoaa..... I have modems on EVERY SCO Xenix site out there, with NO
- > problems. 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....
-
- I don't have much to add to this, other than the fact that we too have at
- least 1 modem on *EVERY* system we install (mainly because we do most of
- our support that way, and have many clients in other states), and that
- there seems to be an increasing number of shrink-wrapped applications
- coming out for Xenix - NOT a decreasing number, an INCREASING number ...
- You're acting like vendors have already buried Xenix, and thats not the
- case ...
-
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