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> Bill Campbell wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 22, 2006, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Jul 22, 2006, Rob Steinmetz wrote:
> > > > > I have been asked to convert an application from SCO Unix Open Desktop
> > > > > 3.0 to a more modern platform.
> > > > I don't remember an OpenDesktop 3.0, 2.0 yes.
> > > There was Open Server 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 and
> > > Open Desktop 1.0 ,2.0 and 3.0
> > >
> > > I had licenses for all of them. Most people had Open Desktop as Open
> > > Server was extremely expensive. Most Open Desktop was Single User or 16
> > > User. But the network printing was not very good. I later used netcat
> > > with them to get more repliable printing. The 3.0 version was based on
> > > Unix 3.2v4.2 with X.
> >
> > I generally had my customers buy the top-end SCO 3.2v[45] packages since
> > they included all the networking, and it was far easier to do updates than
> > maintaining multiple packages.
>
> I remember it a little differently. Open Desktop was a 2 user license and Open
> Server was the multi-user version starting at 16 users. They both included all
> of the networking and X stuff, at least from ODT 2, which was the first
> version I had after Xenix. I never saw an OpenServer/Desktop 1.0. I never had
> a OpenServer 2.0 or OpenDesktop 3.0. Then I went to OpenServer 5.0.x which
> did have the different versions (Host Enterprise).

The 2 user is what I refered to single user(console and one user). The
largest ODT was 15 user. I had a lot of architects using ODT. They had
to have 16 users because of the way their architecual software worked.
Even though they used id on the one machine the services counted more
users. I do not remember the command but you could see 5-10 users being
used while they were running their software. They had a hardware key that
would be tested while running the software package. We had tried the 2
user ODT but they could not run their software. The OS would give them an
error message about user licences and their software would abort. Their
were no problems with the 16 user licensed ODT.

Later most of these archetects moved to AutoCAD and MS OS's. I think it
was ARRIS that they used. The company stopped making upgrades for the SCO
Unix and started only supporting MS. They had large HP Plotters that they
used with the SCO OS's.

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Boyd Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>
ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047
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