Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!srcsip!jhereg!questar!hobbes!jeff From: jeff@hobbes.C2S.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: SCO stopping enhancements for Xenix? Message-ID: <5118@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> Date: 2 Mar 90 16:09:22 GMT References: <1314@polari.UUCP> Sender: news@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG Reply-To: jeff@hobbes.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes) Followup-To: comp.unix.xenix Organization: Questar Data Systems, Inc., St. Paul, MN Lines: 29 In article <1314@polari.UUCP> corwin@polari.UUCP (Don Glover) writes: > In article , larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes: > > Has anyone else heard anything from SCO about stopping > > product development on the Xenix product, and only releasing > > bug fixes through 1991? > > Larry this is really a followup to the message I sent before, I finally got > SCO to return a call. According to Sharon in sales, what is currently selling > is the final version (aside from MINOR bug fixes) of xenix that will be > available. There will be no further development work on xenix, To get up > grades you have to pay $495 for operating system and $495 for the development > system. At these prices it looks like it is better to buy ESIX from everex > than to upgrade to SCO unix. Saves about 175 to go with ESIX, once again > the SCO blood suckers strike. > This makes me VERY angry. Just 4 months ago I paid $1500.00 for Xenix 2.3.2. Now to keep current I have to spend another $1000.00 for 3.2. This puts me at a grand total of $2500.00 when (unless I'm mistaken) SCO Unix 3.2 only retails for around $1900.00. Damn!. I looked closely at ESIX, but decided that SCO had a better reputation, and what they offered for the price was a good deal. I will be looking at ESIX once again. -- Jeff Holmes DOMAIN: jeff@questar.mn.org Questar Data Systems UUCP: amdahl!bungia!questar!jeff St. Paul, MN 55121 AT&T: +1 612 688 0089