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From: dave@westmark.UUCP (Dave Levenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A different View of the value of OS/2 - it's better than UNIX
Message-ID: <160@westmark.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Sep-87 19:51:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: westmark.160
Posted: Tue Sep 15 19:51:31 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 18-Sep-87 06:07:05 EDT
References: <494@parcvax.Xerox.COM> <198@qetzal.UUCP>
Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA
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Keywords: market acceptance of UNIX lacking

In article <198@qetzal.UUCP>, rcw@qetzal.UUCP (sysop) writes:
...
> For some applications, DOS would never be considered. For example,
> an application which requires two or more people accessing a database
> at the same time.
...
We just completed the installation of a multi-user database system
under MS-DOS.  What we have is multiple MS-DOS systems connected by
a lan to a MS-DOS database server.  Why did we do it this way?  Our
customer was already familiar with MS-DOS.  The distributed
architecture is robust in the face of a system failure. (The database
is kept on one of the client workstations, which can take over the
server role when necessary.)

Yes, it could have been done under UNIX, with everybody sharing the
same system, but at a higher price-per-user, for the same
performance.
-- 
Dave Levenson
Westmark, Inc.		A node for news.
Warren, NJ USA
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