OT: Question re: SCO Use

[D . Thomas Podnar]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:25:00AM -0700, Enrique Arredondo wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "D . Thomas Podnar" <tom at microlite.com>
> To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
> Cc: "FilePro Mailing List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 10:57 AM
> Subject: Re: OT: Question re: SCO Use
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> > 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
> >> -- 
> >> Jay R. Ashworth 
> >> jra at baylink.com
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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
> >
> 
> 9) OSR6 license fees per user
> linux is unlimited users
> 
> 10) OSR6 license fees per processor
> linux unlimited processors
> 
> 
> 11) OSR6 fees when you want to upgrade to 6.0.1, ofcourse you can't use 
> 6.0.0 licenses in this one.
> linux unlimited upgrades

Well. I happen to sell Intellectual Property for a living, so I'm all
about asking my customers to spend enough to keep me in business
and be able to support them and fix their problems RIGHT NOW, instead
of waiting for somebody to try and undestand and repair the source of
the original author, who is the only guy/gal who really understood that
particular piece of code, but got bored with it and moved on to something
else.

In OpenServer 6, your license fees pay the salary of the guy who is
PAID to keep your product running.

Did you know that when SCO delivers an Open Source component, they
support it, fix problems, and deliver patches, etc. back to the authors
in accordance with the licensing policies of that product?
> 
> Don't use Suse for your latests hardware use Redhat AS/4 or Fedora Core4

I'll try that. I'm pretty sure that Red Hat ES 4 wouldn't boot either, and
that my point about Suse not booting was that it was the latest public
distribution to become available. Perhaps Core 4 will actually work.

Tom Podnar
Microlite

Remember, I sell BackupEDGE for both platforms, and it is not like I am
anti-Linux. I'm merely trying to add some sanity here and point out that
SCO is a real operating system company that makes really reliable products,
and happens to have a division with some litigation going on.


If they weren't, I'd have a hard time explaining all of the SCO engineers
I talk to on an almost daily basis to colaborate on different issues.

NONE of them are named Harvey :-)

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