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- From: kbibb@maui.qualcomm.com (Ken Bibb)
- Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
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- Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
- References: <BzI0Ls.GGo@shakti.ncst.ernet.in> <1992Dec22.080719.16062@eskimo.com> <1992Dec27.031931.10598@eskimo.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 20:14:14 GMT
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- In <1992Dec27.031931.10598@eskimo.com> nanook@eskimo.com (Robert Dinse) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec22.080719.16062@eskimo.com>, johnn@eskimo.com (John Navitsky) writes:
- >> In article <BzI0Ls.GGo@shakti.ncst.ernet.in> riyer@shakti.ncst.ernet.in (Rajappa Iyer) writes:
- >> >
- >> >Isn't anybody at Sun doing their homework right?
- >>
- >> I really suspect that Sun is trying to set themselves (and us) for the
- >> long haul. Unfortunatly this means (among other things) some pain, as
- >> in the move to SV4 derived Solaris. It would seem to me that they want
- >> to get it over with.
-
- > Nah, don't see any big advantages to System-V4r for the customer for
- >either the short or long haul. I do see some big advantages to AT&T.
-
- First, it's SVr4 not SV4r. It means: system five release four.
-
- >[deleted]
-
- > So they get together, they say to Sun, (mind you this IS speculation
- >and nothing more), they say, "Gosh, we can help you with your short-term
- >cash difficulties, if you'll just agree to make the next major release of
- >Sun/OS system-V4r based so that we can continue collecting outrageous
- >royalties from your customer base.
-
- Main problem with this theory is that Sun and AT&T helped write SVr4
- *together* (as I recall, there was a third vendor who was also involved
- with the SVr4 development).
-
- > The position I've taken, is to condition any purchases of Sun
- >equipment upon it being able to run 4.1.x. I write this right into the
- >purchase order. So far, 4.1.x has worked on all of the boxes we've
- >purchased (mostly 4.1.3), though I'm told it won't run on mutli-processor
- >SS10's.
-
- And it won't run on the LX, SPARCclassic, or SPARCcenter 2000.
-
- --
- Ken Bibb "he heard the snow falling faintly through the
- kbibb@qualcomm.com universe and faintly falling, like the descent of
- jester@crash.cts.com their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
- --"The Dead", James Joyce
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