From: david@dynamix.com (David L Jarvis)
Subject: Re: Xenix considered harmful (was Re: SCO support - a success story)
Organization:  SOFTWARE / DYNAMIX
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 92 9:04:41 EDT
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> 
> In article <BtxqGy.1zF@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
> >>I've upgraded plenty of 2.3.2 sites to 2.3.4 and never even considered
> >>Unix,
> >
> >Glad to hear you have the best interests of your customer in mind.
> 
> Actually he does!!  He is putting in what the customer NEEDS and not
> a lot of extras that they will probably never use or need.

Well I must be doing something right Marc, my firm has grown and prospered
every year since it's inception six years ago.  (even thru the Gulf War and
continuing recession)
The best interests of the client are *always* our primary concern, and that
means not selling them something they don't need and something thats not
the best tool for the job.  
Not ONE SINGLE client has suffered by going Xenix instead of Unix.  
But you are digressing away from the point at hand:  
you made a statement that Xenix was no longer
appropriate for *any* installations and had no place in the business world,
and I argued that plenty of us are still doing new installations based on
Xenix because clients don't always need everything (good and bad) that Unix
will bring, and that Xenix is mature, stable, and has plenty of vendors
still supporting it completely ... I haven't seen much from you to debate
that yet ...

> >You're right.  I've never seen a client who was willing to lock
> >themselves out of modems and shrinkwrapped software.  But hey, if
> >that's what you want, I guess you should buy Xenix.
> 
> Whoaa.....  I have modems on EVERY SCO Xenix site out there, with NO 
> problems.  And as far as shrinkwrapped software, there is probably more
> out there for SCO Xenix than SCO UNIX (this may change).  We use
> Lotus 123, WordPerfect 5x, WordPerfect Office, Realworld, Cougar,
> TruFax, Call Tracker, The Medical Manager and many others....

I don't have much to add to this, other than the fact that we too have at
least 1 modem on *EVERY* system we install (mainly because we do most of
our support that way, and have many clients in other states), and that
there seems to be an increasing number of shrink-wrapped applications
coming out for Xenix - NOT a decreasing number, an INCREASING number ...
You're acting like vendors have already buried Xenix, and thats not the
case ...


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