OT: Question re: SCO Use

Transpower transpower at aol.com
Mon Jun 20 15:01:22 PDT 2005


Tim Fischer wrote on 6/20/2005, 4:58 PM:

 > You know, John's recent posts have brought up a good question to me.
 > Why SCO?  I mean, I've noticed a lot of SCO based questions here.  Both
 > FP shops that I've worked in were SCO shops when I started.  Is there
 > some old relationship between FP & SCO?  Is there a general consensus
 > here that SCO is better?  Easier?  Is it cheaper?  (I have no idea about
 > licensing with them.)
 >
 > Given SCO's current legal issues, I'm surprised that anyone would really
 > want to rely on their stability and I, for one, wouldn't want to give
 > them any of my money.
 >
 > I mean, why not FreeBSD, Linux, AIX, Solaris, etc?  Why SCO?
 >
 > Just a question - not trying to start any wars or anything.
 >
 > Tim Fischer
 >
Tim:  SCO OpenSever is very stable and has a very beautiful, easy-to-use 
interface--much better, in my opinion, than FreeBSD, Linux, AIX, or 
Solaris.  I do agree with you that SCO's financial situation appears to 
be precarious.  If SCO goes down, I might have to switch to Mac OS X 
(which uses "Darwin" UNIX as its foundation).

Regards,
Ron Satz
transpower at aol.com, www.transpowercorp.com
SCO UNIX Authorized and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineering
Commercial and Custom Software Manufacturing Since 1976



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