edgar@milan.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de (Edgar Hoch) (01/10/91)
A doctor plan to buy a new computer system (a 386-PC with Unix) which would have about 10 working stations. There should run the program for the doctors office as well as other programs. My question is: Should he buy INTERACTIVE UNIX or SCO UNIX ? Which is better? What's the differences between them? He plan to buy the programmers development system, in future the use of X-windows and networking will be possible. Can me anybody give informations to help me in this decision? Many thanks! -- Edgar Hoch edgar@adler.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de hochbb@helg.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
pizzi@esacs.UUCP (Riccardo Pizzi) (01/10/91)
In article <EDGAR.91Jan9212241@milan.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de> edgar@milan.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de (Edgar Hoch) writes: >My question is: Should he buy INTERACTIVE UNIX or SCO UNIX ? Which is better? If you plan to do intensive software and/or X development, I think Interactive is *a lot* better. If you plan to run accounting packages, wordprocessors and the like, and prefer user-friendlyness in respect to SYSV standard conformity, go for SCO. Rick BTW: all standard disclaimers apply. Opinions expressed are mine, not my company's. -- Riccardo Pizzi @ ESA Software, Rimini, ITALY e-mail: pizzi%esacs@relay.EU.net -or- root@xtc.sublink.org Public Access Unix @ +39-541-27858 (Telebit) << Object Oriented is an Opaque Disease >>
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (01/11/91)
I consider ISC and ESIX to be about equal in quality, with ESIX maybe
a bit more solid. I consider SCO to be notably more solid than either of
the others. SCO is not quite as fast for some applications, and the C2
security will get in the way and make some system administration a bit
more dificult, but I would think of it first if I were doing an
application like that. I would also have a backup daemon running on any
system to write critical appointment, billing, and diagnosis info out
*right now* to a media like tape (or floppy if the volume is low
enough).
Also off-site storage of duplicate tapes is a good idea, to protect
against against legal problems, if nothing else.
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