From: pyeatt@Texaco.com (Larry D. Pyeatt) Subject: Re: Linux beoming a real choice? Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 19:43:37 GMT
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.
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