Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 00:29:11 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help, I've been SCOed! Message-ID: <Pine.UW2.3.95.961208001159.20314B-100000@cedb> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961207235148.239A-100000@hamby1>
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On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Jake Hamby wrote: > high as you imply, then that's not a good choice for them either. About > how much would an upgrade from OpenServer 5 to UnixWare cost? Price sensitivity depends on the situation. UnixWare licenses are cheap compared to HP/UX or AIX or ... Base license (5 user) is somewhere around $800. Really not that bad if that's all you need. But we use Unix on our clients too (F* MS) and 800 per client is a little too much :) SCO's upgrade policy isn't that great so I'd look at presenting your client with the cost of a new license (there is no upgrade at the moment anyway) but you could also point out that the new prooduct (UnixWare/Gemini) really is the best there is in the commercial x86 market and is winning performance awards left and right. It really is good stuff and we run our server side stuff on it, the VxFS (journaling file system) is really bullet proof, we haven't lost anything from power outages or lightning or stupid janitors. That's pretty important to retailers and isn't there yet in FreBSD. But for the client side (cash registers for us) FreeBSD shines. Not just the price, but that I can build a mini kernel that does just what we need in as little RAM as possible. Only folks who buy into WinTel say that bloat is OK cause RAM is cheap :) > Also, glad to see you're shipping your product for FreeBSD! So am I :) Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82
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