From: greimann@ravel.udel.edu (John B Greimann) Subject: Re: Linux beoming a real choice? Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 22:43:05 GMT
In article <1993Jun10.194337.20584@texhrc.uucp> pyeatt@Texaco.com (Larry D. Pyeatt) writes:
>In article <C8ExIy.4KH@news.udel.edu>, greimann@ravel.udel.edu (John B Greimann) writes:
>|> In article <1993Jun10.125257.18809@texhrc.uucp> pyeatt@Texaco.com (Larry D. Pyeatt) writes:
>|> >In article <C8D1K5.73q@jti.com>, richb@jti.com (Rich Braun) writes:
>|> >|> SCO has sold < 1 million copies of its Unix products, total, then the
>|> >|> number of people using SCO's products today is roughly equal to the
>|> >|> number of additional people who will be starting to use Microsoft
>|> >|> Windows 3.1 next month.
>|> >
>|> >Not quite true. One copy of SCO can support 10 or more users. You
>|> >are comparing apples and oranges.
>|> >
>|> Yeah...the university here has lots of Windows boxes. They also have 4
>|> Sun 4/690's...the number of people who use those 4 machines (probobly 1
>|> licensed copy of SunOS for 4 machines and a bunch of users) is probobly
>|> greater than the number of people who use the several thousand copies of
>|> Windows that are installed...
>
>Do I detect a little sarcasm? My group has 4 unix machines and
>23 pc's. At any given time, there are about 12 people using the
>unix machines and 20 people using Windows. Somewhere around 5
>of the Windows users are simply running X terminal software, and
>another 5 are using terminal emulators to connect to the mainframes,
>so there are really only about 10 people who are actively using
>Windows apps. Windows is great in that it allows us to cheaply
>reconfigure a PC to connect to mainframe or Unix, and can even be
>used to do some real work, but windows still has a lot of growing
>up to do before it can replace Unix.
>
>There are currently 18 people using our the internet gateway.
>It sometimes has as many as 30 users, but almost never less
>than 10.
>
>Maybe my perceptions are skewed.
No, your perceptions aren't skewed, the university is just a little whacked.
The cluster of 690s has about 40,000 accounts on it...one for every student/
faculty member/and whoever else gets an account. Of those, several thousand
are actually used (probobly around 5k or so). There are a bunch of Windows
boxes being placed all over campus (soon to outnumber the number of Macs) that
spend little time running Windows (mostly Lotus, Word Perfect, NCSA telnet (to
the Suns), and Lotus), so I'd really doubt that Windows is yet that
important to the university (not to mention that none of the Windows boxes
work particularly well)...it is catching up, though.
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