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Xref: sserve comp.unix.misc:10600 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:5190 comp.unix.bsd:13130 comp.windows.x.i386unix:5945 biz.sco.general:9527 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!news.mtholyoke.edu!jbotz From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.bsd,comp.windows.x.i386unix,biz.sco.general Subject: Re: SCO market share Date: 20 Dec 1993 18:27:24 GMT Organization: Mount Holyoke College Lines: 21 Message-ID: <2f4qqc$ke6@slab.mtholyoke.edu> References: <9312142221.aa02201@fags.stonewall.demon.co.uk> <1993Dec15.015758.17502@news.csuohio.edu> <9312160932.aa05151@fags.stonewall.demon.co.uk> <1993Dec16.141138.17060@news.csuohio.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: orixa.mtholyoke.edu In article <1993Dec16.141138.17060@news.csuohio.edu>, tim werner <thx1139@knuth.cba.csuohio.edu> wrote: >In article <9312160932.aa05151@fags.stonewall.demon.co.uk> nigel@stonewall.demon.co.uk (Nigel Whitfield) writes: >>I'm the editor of a magazine. Not a C programmer. Whatever platform >>we're using, I want the operating system to work and not fall over at >>a time when a couple of hours delay will cost us thousands of pounds. > >I can only repeat that paying someone for a support contract does not >guarantee that they will solve your problem when you call them. Yep. And furthermore, try and sue your vendor for those thousands of pounds you lose when your OS falls over at a critical time and see how far you get (and read all the disclaimers in the fine print of your licenses.) No, Nigel's argument doesn't go very far... it's just a relic attitude left over from the days when corporate computing was synonymous with on-site IBM engineers (and IBM still didn't reimburse you for business lost due to downtime.) -- Jurgen Botz, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu | ``Accountability is the price of openness'' South Hadley, MA, USA | - Daniel Geer