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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:5083 comp.os.linux.misc:34059 comp.os.os2.advocacy:76105 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!udel!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!sun4nl!wtrlnd!maxine.wlink.nl!autpels.maxine.wlink.nl!not-for-mail From: ruurd@autpels.maxine.wlink.nl (Ruurd Pels) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Message-ID: <3g55vs$8lv@bar.autpels.nl> Date: 25 Jan 1995 10:34:52 +0100 References: <950116203411@lambada> <3g070f$251@manuel.anu.edu.au> <3g0mnn$ccp@nkosi.well.com> <3g267v$1e3@blackice.winternet.com> Organization: none Lines: 24 NNTP-Posting-Host: bar.autpels.nl In article <3g267v$1e3@blackice.winternet.com>, Jeff Dege <jdege@winternet.com> wrote: >Think about it. If you were going to put a box out on the factory floor >to collect data from half-a-dozen senors, package it up, and dial it in to >the mainframe every half-hour. Your going to write the app in-house. >If you were to platform the app on a Unix varient, taking advantage of >multi-tasking and operating system services such as cron, uucp, init, etc., >would it be more reliable than if you were to platform it on MsDOS? >Certainly. Would it cost less to develop? Certainly. Can you justify >$1000 to buy a SCO license for that platform? Only with great dificulty. >It seems to me that Linux is a perfect solution. That Linux isn't a >very good solution for other problems doesn't strike me as very relevent. And there is another matter at hand which makes commercialy developing taylor-made systems for which you provide hard- and software based on Linux a better solution. Just the absense of having to buy some UNIX license for every site you want to automate gives you a comptetitive edge in price, which would range from $1000 to $3000 I would guess. -- Grtz, RFP ;-) |o| Ruurd Pels, Kamgras 187, 8935 EJ Leeuwarden, The Netherlands |o| |o| EU.net!sun4nl!wtrlnd!maxine!autpels!ruurd |o|