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- From: winsor@geek.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (js)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 16:42:45 GMT
- Organization: Texas Instruments Incorporated, Austin
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- In article <BzI0Ls.GGo@shakti.ncst.ernet.in>, riyer@shakti.ncst.ernet.in (Rajappa Iyer) writes:
- |> I am a fairly recent reader of this group -- but even in the short time
- |> that I have been reading it, I find it increasingly hard to ignore the
- |> fact that Sun seems to be fucking its customers over. The new LX series
- |> 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. My organization is also
- |> one of the few "victims." It's all very well for Sun/Solaris proponents
- |> to say "Oh but you can *still* buy old machines and run SunOS 4.1.x on
- |> it." That's precisely the kind of trap I wished to avoid when I switched
- |> to Sun. I want to be able to run the same apps on newer and faster machines.
- |>
- |> Isn't anybody at Sun doing their homework right?
- Remember IBM and its MicroChannel move? Same objections. Same downward
- compatability solutions (see PS/2 model 25,30). Casualties of the game are
- never never happy.
-
- Oh, and here's one more whine:
- Said Sun with its new SPARC -
- "NO NEW INCOMPATABILITIES!"
-
- And we all know about promises....
-
- john
-