OT: Question re: SCO Use

[D . Thomas Podnar]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 09:28:31AM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:28:53PM -0400, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> > But after tomorrow when OSR 6.0.0 is officially launched, I revert to
> > being nought but a consumer of documentation.
> 
> Oh: you mean System 5 Release 3.2v6.0?
> 
> When *are* they going to finally move up to Release 4?
> 
> Oh, "never"?
> 
> :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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Well, histrionics aside, there are a few things to note about OpenServer 6...

1) It is based on SVRV.

2) It runs on new hardware up to and including Serial Attached SCSI (SAS).

3) I was able to build an all-SATA solution on it (hard disk, DVD Writer
   and Iomega REV) on a system that the latest Suse (9.3) wouldn't even
   install on.

4) It will probably outperform Linux on most network, disk, and
   multi-processing performance tests, AND in real life.

5) It will come out of the box more secure than any other shipping OS.

6) Linux is backwards compatible to last week. OpenServer 6
   is backwards compatible to Xenix 286. Linux people say "just recompile
   and it will all run fine".
   Sure, all your end users can do that.

7) Linux will run all your Open Source Applications.

8) OpenServer 6 will run:
   all your OpenServer 6 applications
   all your OpenServer 5 applications
   all your UnixWare applications
   all your old SCO UNIX applications
   all your old SCO Xenix applications
   AND
   all your OpenSource applications

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Tom
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