OT: Question re: SCO Use

[Brian K. White]

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From: "Enrique Arredondo" <henry at vegena.net>
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Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Question re: SCO Use


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> ----- 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
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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
>
> Don't use Suse for your latests hardware use Redhat AS/4 or Fedora Core4

You can't seriously be advising people to run fedora in production???
And AS costs more than SCO! And that only gets you One Year! At least SCO 
licenses are forever.

The point is you can pay fees for something that works better than anything 
else, or live with problems for free.
Redhat's very expensive pay linux is probably the worst of both worlds. 
Paying fees to live with problems.

I haven't used it (the pay version), but some things are unavoidable just 
because it's linux. Redhat can only customize and contribute to the things 
that make up the system, but the system is written by all those individuals 
who could care less if what they do makes a problem for someone else and 
redhat doesn't dictate to them what to do or how to do it or when. For 
example, no matter how much you paid for the best service redhat offers, 
recent versions would still break things like filepro that were built 
statically on an older version. And other things like hardware support and 
security fixes and bug fixes will necessitate that you do in fact keep up 
with current versions of the kernel and other things.

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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