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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
- Date: 27 Dec 1992 20:46:45 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- Message-ID: <1hl4nlINNreq@early-bird.think.com>
- References: <1992Dec22.080719.16062@eskimo.com> <1992Dec22.203852.8733@news.arc.nasa.gov> <1992Dec27.033255.11067@eskimo.com>
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- In article <1992Dec27.033255.11067@eskimo.com> nanook@eskimo.com (Robert Dinse) writes:
- > We don't have to take it, and that's an important point. Make it clear
- >to Sun that you won't take it and they'll either be forced to follow the
- >market or go out of business.
-
- Isn't that what they're doing? "The market" is System V.
-
- What if Sun calls your bluff? At least Solaris 2.x provides Solaris 1.x
- compatibility features. If you switch to another vendor, the conversion
- will be much harder.
-
- Sun may also have figured on losing a few old customers as part of this
- process. If incorporating System V results in lots more new customers,
- they'll still come out ahead in the long run.
-
- > Write into your purchase orders for new Sun equipment that the purchase
- >is conditioned on the equipment being able to run Sun/OS 4.1.x.
-
- I'm sure Sun won't turn down orders for Sparcstation 2's, 6xx/MP's and
- single-processor Sparcstation 10's. Eventually, though, they'll be taken
- off the price list. But there will probably be a decent supply of used
- machines then.
-
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- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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