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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: SCO market share
Message-ID: <hastyCHxzu5.Lt0@netcom.com>
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
References: <1993Dec10.004649.11091@anomaly.sbs.com> <1993Dec11.032903.29962@ksmith.com> <16CA277C1S85.KZUPAN@LSTC2VM.stortek.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1993 22:01:17 GMT
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In article <16CA277C1S85.KZUPAN@LSTC2VM.stortek.com> KZUPAN@LSTC2VM.stortek.com writes:
>In article <1993Dec11.032903.29962@ksmith.com>
>keith@ksmith.com (Keith Smith) writes:
> 
>>
>>In article <1993Dec10.004649.11091@anomaly.sbs.com>,
>>Rev. Michael P. Deignan <kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.com> wrote:
>>>dcm6986@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Dan Mattrazzo) writes:
>>>
>>>>      Yes, Linux comes with gcc, ++, mail, TCP/IP, CD-ROM support,
>>>>      soundboard support, XWindows, on and on.  And it's free.
>>>
>>>Unfortuntely, it doesn't support a fraction of the device drivers
>>>that are available on the market for other devices, such as a
>>>Always Technology SCSI board, or a Specialix SIO card.
>>>
>>Funny,  I missed the soundblaster support in SCO.  Is it on sosco?  Is
>>it user supported or SCO supported or Card vendor specific?
>>
>>BTW I'd lay odds that SCO Unix is supported by and supports more
>>hardware than _ANY_ other Unix PERIOD, so any driver support arguments
>>vs. SCO are a lose for the other side.
>>
>Not to mention the fact that there is support for the Always IN2000 now
>available on sunsite and tsx-11, and has been for a few months. Besides
>the fact that I wouldn't call the Allways card a standard to be focused on.
>Not saying it a bad card, its just not the standard. There are some gaps in
>Linux yes, but we got the nets best minds filling them in.
> 

Once I had a nightmare , a salesman trying to sell me the SCO developement
system for $2000. However, *bsd and linux bail us out :-)

Granted the price for SCO may have dropped recently but it is too late
for developers like me. 

	Amancio



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