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- From: ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
- Keywords: interesting old thought
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.022622.3986@nobeltech.se>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 02:26:22 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.203852.8733@news.arc.nasa.gov> <1992Dec27.033255.11067@eskimo.com> <1hl1v0INNpic@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
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- In article <1hl1v0INNpic@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> strat@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Steve Davis) writes:
- >The very FUTURE of academic, scientific, and business computing is at
- >stake here, and *you* would take steps to jeopardize a Twenty Year
- >investment simply because a few canned apps have to be recompiled to
- >work with new Sun platforms?
- >
- Dear Steve, here in the Real World (TM), we use applications bought from
- vendors. Vendors don't like to spend more money than nescessary. Vendors
- don't want to port software to yet another operating system. So, what you
- are saying is that we should be glad that we can buy these new wonderful
- computers, although we can't use them ? Binary compability, heck, I've seen
- applications that stop working when going to 4.1.2 from 4.1.1.
- Exchanging the SUNs for HPs might be cheaper than waiting for Solaris 2.x
- versions of the software. And we also have SUN3 left, because we need to
- maintain support to our customers.
- It is a bit differeent if all you need is news,rn and emacs.
-
- /Per
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