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From: bry@netcom.com (Bryan Althaus)
Subject: Re: Unix for PC
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Darren R. Davis (darrend@bikini.USG.Sandy.Novell.COM) wrote:
: WARNING PISSING MATCH TO FOLLOW!  :^)


: I still think UnixWare is cheaper.  I believe that a PE and SDK from
: Information Foundation is about $259.00.  What is the price of Solaris
: as I do not know.

Solaris 2 user is $450, but unless you are comparing stand alone systems,
NFS is a must so the PE version would need to have this added.  How
much is NFS for the PE version?  Also as I remember there are alot
of commands that most users consider standard UNIX that do not come
with the PE version. How much to add these commands? Does NIS(+) come
with the PE version?

As a stand alone system, the PE system with the new $99 native C++ compiler 
and *new* graphical debugger (thank god!) makes a nice little package,
just Novell putting the missing commands back would make it a complate
system.

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Regards,
Bryan Althaus           bryan@krf.com