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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
- Message-ID: <u6lnv5g@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Dec22.080719.16062@eskimo.com> <1992Dec27.031931.10598@eskimo.com> <1992Dec27.200016.6479@ukw.uucp> <1992Dec28.005345.28237@siemens.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 05:51:57 GMT
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- In <1992Dec28.005345.28237@siemens.com> aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri) writes:
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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.
- |
- | 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.
-
- Yes, Siemens, among others! Surely given your email address you
- are aware of that!?
-
- Also, SGI is going to SVR4 compatibility (which I regard as a mistake,
- but I don't make the decisions; at least SVR4 is *far* better than OSF,
- at least as of last year when I last worked with the OSF code, in terms
- of code quality and performance). For better or worse, many vendors seem
- to be rushing towards SVR4 compatibility, in terms of interfaces, SVID,
- and ABIs, if not necessarily code base.
-
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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