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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Customers and Vendors (Was sun and customers)
- Message-ID: <16081@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 03:29:21 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.203852.8733@news.arc.nasa.gov> <16052@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <DARYL.92Dec23115048@piano.adept.ih.att.com>
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- >Any customers that do not want to make a
- >complete architecture switch from 68K machines were screwed by sun and not
- >by HP.
-
- Or, rather, they haven't *yet* been "screwed" by HP; it'll be interesting
- to see what happens to the 68K-based HP workstations in the future.
- They may continue to support that line forever, or they may not. I
- suspect their PA-based workstations will, over time, get more and more
- of a price/performance advantage over their 68K-based workstations.
-
- Admittedly, the 68K-based HP line may taper off more slowly than did
- Sun's 68K-based line....
-
- (Now, the customers who didn't want to make a switch from Apollo Domain
- to HP-UX weren't quite so lucky; Sun isn't the only company to shoot
- hardware or software products in the head, and upset many customers in
- the process.
-
- HP, and Sun, and DEC in the case of, say, MIPS-based machines, and other
- companies, may well have done the right thing from a business standpoint
- - they exist, and have existed since their inception, to make money,
- after all, not to make people happy.)
-