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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 11:26:26 EDT
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- > mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
- >
- > >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.
-
- This is right on target Jonathan ... and more so if you consider that the
- context of my words that Marc is quoting ... it was in upgrading 2.3.2
- people to 2.3.4 where I never even consider Unix ... see my earlier post
- where I cover this in greater depth ...
-
- > >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.
-
- You are quite correct here as well ...
- Again, security was not a *primary* concern for most of our Xenix clients,
- but that certainly does not mean they have NO security for their systems
- accounts which are properly passworded are the best form of security, and
- next in line comes the fact that not a single user ever gets
- direct access to a shell ... (save the administrator) ... hows THAT for
- security?
-
- > 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.
-
- Correct. My point was only that if networking was the *primary* issue that
- I'd have considered Unix. Actually, I said that if the client has *no*
- networking or security issues, Xenix was the most likely candidate (if the
- number of users was low enough) ...
-
- > >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.
-
- Very good point, and I have already posted a similiar statement ...
-
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