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From: bill@zycor.UUCP (Bill Mahoney)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: SCO stopping enhancements for Xenix?
Message-ID: <7@zycor.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 90 15:14:56 GMT
References: <5118@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> <6734@cps3xx.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@.UUCP (Bill Mahoney)
Organization: zycor, Inc. - Omaha, NE
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In article <6734@cps3xx.UUCP> usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes:
>From article <5118@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG>, by jeff@hobbes.C2S.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes):
>> In article <1314@polari.UUCP> corwin@polari.UUCP (Don Glover) writes:
>> 	This makes me VERY angry. 
>
>If you bought SCO Xenix just 4 months ago and you're already thinking of
>upgrading to SCO UNIX, it's your own fault for not thinking ahead back
>then and simply buying SCO UNIX. It was shipping then.....

This is a joke, right? If SCO is wanting to push UNIX, and it "makes
good business sense" to drop Xenix, they could have handled this MUCH
better. 

>Overall, it makes good business sense for SCO to drop Xenix. They won't
>have the overhead of supporting double the development staff to make a
>product to compete against their own other product. 

I agree. So they should offer a $800 (or something) update path for
those of us who have pumped $ into them for years. If they want all of
their customers to switch over, making a new product that is MORE
expensive is hardly the best way (unless you're IBM, and their rules
don't apply anywhere but at IBM).

>Yes, it sucks that SCO is moving in a direction of orphaning home
>hackers, 

Some of us might resent that...

>but that isn't where the money is for them.

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