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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO doesn't sell UNIX
Message-ID: <16068@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 28 Nov 90 05:10:55 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <27519123.34A2@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>Unless we, the developers and users, keep the pressure on SCO, there
>will never be a C2-free version of "SCO Unix."  And that would be a
>pity.  Let's keep reminding them of what we want.

With all due respect, I'm still wondering why the marketplace so
desperately needs a fixed SCO UNIX in particular.  There are only about
seven other vendors out there, just about all of whom do it right.  You
have the vanilla AT&T/Intel branch and then the value-added Interactive
derivatives, in all kinds of price ranges and with all sorts of hardware
and software support arrangements.  Other than for the sake of blind
Neanderthal die-hard hold-over (misplaced) product loyalty from the
utterly different days of that utterly different product Xenix, or out
of sheer customer ignorance of any other name, why the @*&#$^ does
anyone care *what* SCO does?  UNIX is a commodity: take your best deal.

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