SCO stopping enhancements for Xenix?

[Jeff Holmes]

In article <1314 at polari.UUCP> corwin at polari.UUCP (Don Glover) writes:
> In article <Hy78e2w160w at nstar.UUCP>, larry at nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:
> > Has anyone else heard anything from SCO about stopping
> > product development on the Xenix product, and only releasing
> > bug fixes through 1991?
> 
> Larry this is really a followup to the message I sent before,  I finally got
> SCO to return a call.  According to Sharon in sales, what is currently selling
> is the final version (aside from MINOR bug fixes) of xenix that will be
> available.  There will be no further development work on xenix, To get up
> grades you have to pay $495 for operating system and $495 for the development
> system.  At these prices it looks like it is better to buy ESIX from everex
> than to upgrade to SCO unix.  Saves about 175 to go with ESIX, once again
> the SCO blood suckers strike.
>  

	This makes me VERY angry. Just 4 months ago I paid $1500.00
	for Xenix 2.3.2.  Now to keep current I have to spend another
	$1000.00 for 3.2.  This puts me at a grand total of $2500.00
	when (unless I'm mistaken) SCO Unix 3.2 only retails for
	around $1900.00.  Damn!.  I looked closely at ESIX, but
	decided that SCO had a better reputation, and what they
	offered for the price was a good deal.  I will be looking
	at ESIX once again.

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