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unixware vs open server vs linux

From: jonLUNCHEON@MEATapeiros.com (Crossfire)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Re: Traffic on c.u.sco.*
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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 06:17:17 GMT

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:53:00 GMT,
the Lovely and Talented Geoff Johnson <gpj1@optushome.com.au> wrote:

[...snip]

] If you want to know why OSR5 is dying its because you were too stodgy
] in your thinking to see a good product when you saw it and jump
] en-mass to UW7.

Coming from a Small - to - Medium - Business POV:

UW7 talked the talk but couldn't walk the walk until the release of 7.1.1.
We bought 7.0.0, 7.0.1, and 7.1.1.  We tried 'em all, in-house.  7.0.0 took 
me 3 days of on-and-off trying to even get to install, and then crashed 
every time I did anything with any of the hardware.  7.0.1 installed easily 
and was a bit more stable, but still had lots of HW-related problems.  
7.1.1 installed fairly easily and has turned out to be quite stable--I 
don't think my 7.1.1 box has crashed once since I installed it in February,
and I haven't exactly been babying it.  My only objection as an administrator 
to 7.1.1 is that there's a jillion supplements that need to be installed--at 
least SCO released several of the more important ones as a single supplement.

>From a selling standpoint, UW7 was entirely too expensive for what most 
SMB people needed until the release of the Business Edition.  Sure, it 
had capacity for giant filesystems, lots of memory, and hotpluggable 
hardware, but most small businesses don't need features like that and so 
they aren't going to want to pay for them.

For us, stoginess had nothing to do with it; SCO shot themselves in the 
foot by offering an unstable and very expensive OS and pretending like it
was a replacement for a stable and (relatively) inexpensive OS.

Personally, I like UW7, BTW.  It's my main server for my domain and it's 
great.  I wouldn't WANT to go back to OSR5, though it does have a special
place in my heart... ;)

Just my $0.02.  YMMV, IMHO, etc.  Here, have a grain of salt.


Jon Reid
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