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Re: (ASCEND) In Defense Of Ascend...
At 09:41 AM 3/23/98 +1100, Damien Miller wrote:
>On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Matt Holdrege wrote:
>
>> It's not just compiling. One of the key features of our commercial products
>> is that they are supported! To support 18 flavors of unix we would have to
>> train each tech support person on the various differences in such unixes.
>> With OS's like Linux which are generally highly customized, it would be a
>> royal pain to try and debug someone elses system.
>
>This is simply solved by picking a stable distribution of Linux and
>supporting that. Redhat or Caldera would probably be a good choice.
Ah, but which one? Who chooses? And what about all those ISP's that use
FreeBSD and NetBSD? Another thought. If you are going to pay for an Ascend
commercial software product, why not pay for a Unix commercial product?
Matt Holdrege http://www.ascend.com matt@ascend.com
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