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- From: ohnielse@oersted.ltf.dth.dk (Ole Holm Nielsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.130020.22762@uts.uni-c.dk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 13:00:20 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.171352.5982@nsslsun.nssl.uoknor.edu>
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- Reply-To: ohnielse@oersted.ltf.dth.dk
- Organization: Lab of Applied Physics, Tech. Univ. of Denmark
- Lines: 36
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- In article 5982@nsslsun.nssl.uoknor.edu, kwthomas@nsslsun.nssl.uoknor.edu (Kevin W. Thomas) writes:
- >>>Sun is going after the MIS market and probably couldn't care
- >>>less what several thousand engineers, scientists and assorted techies
- >>>think.
- >>
- >>I also suspect fewer "engineers, scientists, and assorted techies" than
- >>some folks think actually care that much about BSD vs. SV; I suspect
- >
- >Wrong. The scientists here are very familiar with a BSD system here. I've
- >been administrating BSD system (2.9BSD and SunOS) for 8 years.
- >
- >>many "engineers, scientists, and assorted techies" outside the UNIX
- >>community would be just as happy running, say, Windows NT, as long as
- >>the particular technical applications they wanted to run were available
- >>under NT on the platform in question.
-
- My gut feeling is that our users don't give a damn about which flavor of
- UNIX they're using. They primarily want SPEED, and many of our users have
- switched to IBM RS/6000 and HP-7XX boxes for this reason. So they have to
- give up a Sun tool or two - who cares, they can always log into an odd Sun
- for this. For scientists, it is mainly fast CPUs and good compilers that
- matter, then comes graphics tools, then word processing, printing etc.
- Nobody cares if the underlying OS is SunOS 4.X, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX
- or even WindowsNT !!
- The system administrator (me) has to care, but I'll pick up what I need to
- learn (I have been a Sun sysadmin since SunOS 1.0 !) in order to run the
- system smoothly.
-
- With best regards,
-
- Ole H. Nielsen
- Laboratory of Applied Physics, Building 307
- Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark
- E-mail: Ole.Holm.Nielsen@ltf.dth.dk
- Telephone: (+45) 42 88 24 88 ext. 3187
- Telefax: (+45) 45 93 23 99
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