mp@allegra.UUCP (Mark Plotnick) (07/10/85)
We're looking at getting either CCA Emacs or Unipress Emacs to replace our ancient, creaky Gosling Emacs #85 on our Suns. Most of our users will be perfectly happy with an Emacs that has shell escapes and an extension language and that doesn't get frequent memory faults, so both of these products look equally as good. I'm currently leaning toward Unipress Emacs, because their prices are only a fraction of what CCA charges (Unipress charges on a per-file-server basis while CCA charges on a per-workstation basis, and Unipress gives larger discounts and charges much less for maintenance.) Since price isn't everything, of course, I have some questions: - to what degree do these programs still have serious bugs? - how good is the maintenance that the companies provide? Ideally we'd like a hotline that provides fixes for major bugs, and automatic distribution of ALL bug fixes (not just the ones for bugs we discover ourselves). - do they make use of the windowing or mouse capabilities of Suns? - do they contain any questionable source material (e.g. Gosling #264 contained code that was clearly derived from AT&T code in ed and dbm.) Mark Plotnick allegra!mp