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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Xenix? Really? (was Re: Unlimited software warranties)
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.004216.670@kithrup.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 91 00:42:16 GMT
References: <1991Mar14.023417.17464@kithrup.COM> <8137@rsiatl.Dixie.Com>
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
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In article <8137@rsiatl.Dixie.Com> jgd@Dixie.Com (John G. DeArmond) writes:
>Really?  On what planet?  What I see from the outside as a consultant is 
>SCO trying to dump Xenix and will do so as soon as the existing customer 
>base turns its head long enough.

I don't blame them.  Supporting two radically different operating systems,
each with a completely different set of tools, is a pain.  Do you blame them
for trying to dump the one that the market doesn't really want?

Why do you think SCO went to 3.2 in the first place?  It wasn't because they
own stock in companies that manufacture disk drives and memory chips!

If people wanted small, stable products, why did sales for XENIX decline as
soon as ISC and AT&T announced their versions of 3.2?  Why do I see so many
people in this group saying how much they want SysVr4?

-- 
Sean Eric Fagan  | "I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it;
sef@kithrup.COM  |  I had a bellyache at the time."
-----------------+           -- The Turtle (Stephen King, _It_)
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