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- From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Subject: Re: Xenix considered harmful (was Re: SCO support - a success story)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.162407.11668@compu.com>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 16:24:07 GMT
- References: <9209061059.AA05588@dynamix.com>
- Organization: CompuData Inc.
- Lines: 41
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- david@dynamix.com (David L Jarvis) writes:
-
- >>
- >> Hey, give the guy credit. I wish I had a few highschool students with that
- >> kind of spunk and writing ability here. Most I've met recently have a tough
- >> time putting a paragraph together. Marc must be working for a friend of mine
- >> up there in MI. Lucky guy!
-
- >Well Fred, if writing ability and spunkiness are your primary concern, then
- >I wish you all the Marc's you can handle
-
- No, I give Marc credit for stating his view intelligently. He may not be
- right, but that is for each shop and customer to decide. The most dangerous
- thing here on the net is to jump all over someone and shut him up forever. You
- will notice that Marc speaks only for himself and not his employer. There may
- be other rules in place because 'management' sees the customer's needs in a
- different light. Yet marc would rather see UNIX everywhere because he's in
- support. I think it's a quite rational view to wish to have the same thing
- everywhere especially since the differences in speed, resources etc are not as
- dramatic from a dollars and cents view as you would want them to be.
-
- ... here we look for people who
- >can correctly identify the clients' needs, and engineer the best possible
- >solution for the client - regardless of market hype and all the
- >irrelevancies that the computer industry confuses people with ...
-
- Marc obviously does not make those decisions. He has his views. The best way
- to learn anything is to go for it and see what the results are: experience. We
- make mistakes and we learn from them. Maybe he's even learned something from
- this discussion. There is sense in both sides as both of you freely admit.
-
- From our standpoint, generally go the UNIX route unless the situation warrants
- less growth and the need clearly will never be there. But we tell the customer
- that Xenix is a bit of an orphan product and that someday he just might have
- to move to UNIX. An informed customer is the best customer. He may even learn
- to trust you to make technical decisions for him because you explained all the
- options to him. If it doesn't matter to him I think UNIX is the better route
- to take because hardware is too cheap not to go that way. Let's face it, the
- market has obviated the need for Xenix and that is why SCO has UNIX.
-
- Fred
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