From: mark@taylor.uucp (Mark A. Davis) Subject: Re: Linux beoming a real choice? Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 12:45:08 GMT
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...
>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,
Seems to me you might be much better off just buying some Xserver software for
the clones. That should be cheaper, easier, and more reliable than using
MS-"Windows" AND an Xserver... (?)
Oh, back to the original posting concept- we have one SCO licence here
supporting 100 users. I think there is one MS-"Windows" license somewhere
around here running to support 1 user on some non CS machine so they can run
1 piece of software which I hope will be on the main system when WABI is
released :)
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