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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!mudos!mju
- From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
- Subject: Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!
- Message-ID: <By5K9I.1GI@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:53:41 GMT
- Distribution: usa
- References: <1992Nov19.235443.14962@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
- Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
- Keywords: Price to beat all prices
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- In article <1992Nov19.235443.14962@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> corey@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (william.c.brown) writes:
-
- First of all, does anyone find it odd that someone from AT&T, the
- company to which a large portion of the SVR4 list price goes as a
- royalty, is bitching about the high cost of SVR4.2?
-
- > somebody straightens me out. What happened to price competitive
- > with OS/2 and NT??? Even for the runtime 495.00 is 400% higher
- > than OS/2..
-
- OS/2 includes significantly less than UnixWare does. OS/2 comes on 15
- or so floppy disks. I would hesitate to even try installing UnixWare
- from something other than a cartridge tape or CD-ROM. And the
- UnixWare prerelease cuts I've seen take the large part of a 120MB hard
- drive just for the personal system.
-
- > What about Consensys?? I just called them I get all of the
- > above for $995.00 complete. What gives Univel???
-
- UnixWare is not a product targeted at the people we typically regard
- as Unix users. The intended configuration is in a pre-existing
- Netware network, with PCs that have needs that cannot be filled by DOS
- running UnixWare. UnixWare is therefore not targeted at the general
- Unix market.
-
- UnixWare is also a product of a Novell spinoff company. Novell is the
- company that sells a package for Netware consisting of an NFS server,
- an lpd server, and a telnet daemon for $5000. This package is called
- Netware NFS. You can buy a package consisting of everything except
- the NFS server (FLeX/IP) for $2000. Therefore, Novell believes that
- an NFS server is worth $3000. Even if their server is faster than
- greased lightening (so fast, in fact, that your clients can't keep up
- with it and have to reduce their rsize parameter in order to get
- decent performance...), it's not worth almost an order of magnitude
- more than SCO's NFS server.
-
- --
- Marc Unangst, N8VRH | "There are two ways to solve this problem:
- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | the hard way, and the easy way. Let's start
- | with the hard way."
- | - W. Scheider, from a Physics lecture
-