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- From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH)
- Subject: Re: Dell SVR$ (and Dell hardware) total lack of success on Postscript
- Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.org (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH)
- Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:46:04 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.004604.11043@NCoast.ORG>
- Followup-To: comp.unix.sysv386
- References: <1hBfwO#8z5pMO0y2xT58RFpP25w2zKV=esr@snark.thyrsus.com>> <PCG.92Jul24195714@aberdb.aber.ac.uk> <gram.712228048@aim1>
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- As quoted from <gram.712228048@aim1> by gram@aim1.aztec.co.za (Graham Wheeler):
- +---------------
- | pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
- | >Dell in particular make it very clear that unless the customer buys a
- | >complete system integrated by them they do not take responsibility for
- | >system integration problems. They do not even represent that the Unix
- | >they sell will work *at all* with any non Dell hardware. All expense of
- | >system integration rests with the purchaser of their Unix product.
- |
- | And this is their mistake. Probably because of Eric's FAQ, Dell UNIX has got
- | a lot of free publicity on the net, and judging by the increase in postings
- | over the last six months, a large increase in sales. While originally Dell
- | UNIX may have been a UNIX port available as a `perk' in the Dell hardware
- | marketing strategy, it is clear that Dell UNIX is rapidly becoming a product
- | in its own right. Dell could make the most of this success by dropping their
- | attitude of `if your hardware isn't ours, we're not interested', and instead
- | marketing Dell UNIX as a competitive product to SCO, ESIX, etc, and providing
- | better support to those of us who already had the hardware and just wanted the
- | software.
- +---------------
-
- I would have jumped in on this argument a week ago except that ncoast was
- being fanatically uncooperative....
-
- I dunno what the rest of you are seeing (and in several cases I suspect they
- aren't even looking) but it sure looks to me like Dell hasn't quite adjusted
- to this fact and hasn't quite decided whether they even like the idea of Dell
- SVR4 as a product in its own right, much less whether they want to devote
- effort to it. (I'll be *real* surprised if "Dellsoft" suddenly appears on the
- scene within the next year....)
-
- Flamefests like the one that apparently just ended (I can dream, can't I?)
- don't exactly help to convince Dell that they should continue to sell their
- SVR4, much less sell it for non-Dell hardware. (Yeah, I know some of the
- hotheads would like to see them stop... I'd like to see their faces when they
- try to get support from Concensys.)
-
- ++Brandon
- --
- Brandon S. Allbery, KF8NH [44.70.4.88]: allbery@NCoast.ORG, bsa@telotech.com
- Senior Programmer, Telotech, Inc. (if I may call myself that...)
-