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From: fred@cdin-1.UUCP (Fred Rump)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO doesn't sell UNIX
Message-ID: <2349@cdin-1.UUCP>
Date: 3 Dec 90 17:40:10 GMT
References: <16068@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <2755CECE.4502@tct.uucp> <2332@cdin-1.UUCP> <1990Dec01.061344.6240@kithrup.COM>
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sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

>In article <2332@cdin-1.UUCP> fred@cdin-1.UUCP (Fred Rump) writes:
>>This whole discussion escapes me. From the end-user's, what's the difference?

>Uhm, just because *your* customers don't see the difference doesn't mean
>other customers don't, either.

>For example, I just installed C News on kithrup, and initially could not
>That's one of about a dozen or so things I've run into.

Come on now. Of the sales going into the typical end-user shop how many do you 
think can or will install news themselves?

Any site that is at that level should have no trouble at all with the 
idiosyncracies of a relaxed SCO UNIX.

I don't still don't think it makes a hell of a lot of difference to 90% of the 
sites out there.

Fred
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