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- From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
- Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.005345.28237@siemens.com>
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- Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (Plainsboro), NJ
- References: <1992Dec22.080719.16062@eskimo.com> <1992Dec27.031931.10598@eskimo.com> <1992Dec27.200016.6479@ukw.uucp>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 00:53:45 GMT
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- >Depends on what the customer is doing. If they are really into (trying
- >to) standardizing their environment, they will appreciate a common base.
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- Is any other non-peecee vendor doing svr4, though? Many are going the OSF
- route, so svr4 instead of SunOS/BSD isn't different. Those of use who may
- have to spend time back-porting BSD stuff to svr4 aren't as appreciative.
-
- >Also, SunOS 5.x brings in quite a few new features.
-
- To be honest, about all I ever wanted from SysV land was the cron system, and
- Sun gave us that long ago.
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- >I believe SUn was trying to get "back into the mainstream". They had
- >an agreement with AT&T that gave them a very good position to define
- >what SVR4 was going to be.
-
- On the other hand, it seemed to me that SunOS as it was was already more
- persuasive in the overall market than SysV.
-
- >And it seems they got many things in that
- >made generic SVR4 much better than SVR3.
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- I'm still waiting to see a list of what is and isn't in SVR4.
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