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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!seanews!eskimo!nanook
- From: nanook@eskimo.com (Robert Dinse)
- Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.032520.10844@eskimo.com>
- Summary: Sun applications not working under Solaris...
- Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
- References: <BzI0Ls.GGo@shakti.ncst.ernet.in> <id.BD0W.W0I@ferranti.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 03:25:20 GMT
- Lines: 13
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- In article <id.BD0W.W0I@ferranti.com>, peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- > In article <BzI0Ls.GGo@shakti.ncst.ernet.in> riyer@shakti.ncst.ernet.in (Rajappa Iyer) writes:
- > > are a case in point. Sun users cannot plonk for the new machines no
- > > matter *how* attractive the pricing for the simple reason that they
- > > have already invested in apps for SunOS 4.1.x.
- >
- > I don't understand why 4.1 apps don't work under Solaris? Is it a matter of
- > Solaris not having back-compatible shared libraries, or did they break
- > something?
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- Aside from things not being 100% back-compatible, the other problem is
- vendors that for one reason or another loaded thier executables statically.
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