From: Steve Ward (steve@up.edu)
Date: 08/11/93


From: steve@up.edu (Steve Ward)
Subject: Re: Is this becoming comp.linux.advocacy?
Date: 10 Aug 1993 23:30:52 -0700

In article <1993Aug10.220845.12167@ksmith.com>,
Keith Smith <keith@ksmith.com> wrote:
>Because you have to have DEEP pockets to do it with other UNIX products
>mostly. How much is that progress database for DOS? How about UNIX?
>
>Merge, VP/ix, WABI? How much $$$?

Merge is bundled for free in the UnixWare Personal Edition...

It works pretty good, too.

>Why pay $1000 for Merge when you can pay $50 for plain DOS? THAT'S WHY

Because with the Server Merge for Windows add-on (on the order of $300
extra, as I recall) I can run a DOS or Windows app on my UnixWare machine,
on the Sparc across the room, or on the X-terminal upstairs via X.

If/when the freeware OSes offer this sort of functionality they will be viable
for us...

>--
>Keith Smith keith@ksmith.com 5719 Archer Rd.
>Digital Designs BBS 1-919-423-4216 Hope Mills, NC 28348-2201
>Somewhere in the Styx of North Carolina ...

Steve

-- 
Steve Ward, Jr., System operator
School of Engineering, University of Portland
Portland OR
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