From: htoaster@yabbs
To: Fastjack@yabbs
Subject: re: Which Unix to Run?
Date: Mon Jan 17 09:12:50 1994

In message Which Unix to Run?, Fastjack said:
> Although it isn't public, and most certainly not free (legally), there is 
> also SCO Unix which I hear has good compatibility with a variety of 
> systems.  Since someone brought up NeXTStep for Intel, I should also 
> mention SunSoft's Solaris 2.x for Intel.  But I would lean towards the 
> SCO, though I haven't used it, and though I run Sun machines now.

I wouldn't reccomend unix after working for a company that had bought it.
Their tech support is completely awful, their prices are high, and you aren't
going to get a much higher quality product that you would be going with 
another vendor.  If you want a commercial system right now I would look at
BSDI (if a BSD based system is okay) or one of the other sysV based systems
(I've heard lots good about Dell, but never have used it).

> Also, since Novell bought the rights to the Unix name, they have released 
> it to the public domain; correct me if I'm wrong.  No more spelling it 
> Un*x...

The didn't do that, but instead that any system that meets a certain spec
(a book of about 500 pages) could be called Unix.  There are still 
complications that stop systems like Linux and NetBSD from being called
Unix...

alex