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- From: rye@scmbrd.dco.dec.com (Bill Rye)
- Subject: Re: ULTRIX .or. OSF?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.213808.18562@decuac.dec.com>
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- References: <1993Jan26.210715.14724@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <MATS.93Jan27082851@styx.efd.lth.se> <1k78j4INN3kh@slab.mtholyoke.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:38:08 GMT
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- In article <1k78j4INN3kh@slab.mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
- >the future. If I can't rely on DEC to support the investment I've made
- >in them, I'm going to turn to Sun and/or HP which have a better track-
- >record -- and guess what -- are profitable as companies because of it.
-
- Oh? Didn't Sun ditch the Sun 3 and 386i's?
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- Didn't HP leave the apollo users high and dry?
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- No company is perfect. I agree though, dropping the DECstations and ignoring
- the problem is NOT an acceptable solution.
-
- I see 2 possible ones:
- 1) Port OSF/1 to DECstations when possible
- 2) Offer really good upgrades from old DECstations/VAXstations
- to new alphas just as Sun offered cheap upgrades from Sun 3's.
- Bill Rye | DISCLAIMER - Digital may own my thoughts and ideas,
- DEC Columbia, MD | but all opinions are my own, no matter how stupid they might
- rye@dco.dec.com | seem.
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