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- From: pjm@isis.cshl.org (Pat Monardo)
- Subject: Re: Solaris 2.x: resistance to it?
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- Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Labs
- References: <1dsjidINNcrv@cae.cad.gatech.edu> <1992Nov18.141013.22833@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> <rhoward.722106436@matd>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:50:36 GMT
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- In article <rhoward.722106436@matd> rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:
- >Thomas.Weihrich@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Thomas Weihrich) writes:
- >
- >>Yes, at Augsburg University folks are not moving to Solaris 2.x.
- >>We could have gotten it for free (Software maintenance contract), but we
- >>will not renew the contract and run SunOS 4.1.2 instead.
- >>Sun's new products aren't an option anyway, because we cannot run SunOS
- >>4.1.? on them. So I guess we'll be using the Sun machines until they
- >>break apart and then move to a different vendor (probably DEC).
- >
- >I just don't understand this...
- >
- >You don't want to change operating systems. I assume this is
- >because of the learning curve and the cost of new software.
- >
- >So instead you will hang onto your Suns until you are forced to
- >buy new machines from DEC (or HP or whoever) which *run a new
- >and different OS* !!
- >
- >Does nobody see the irony in this?
- >
-
- out of the frying pan and into the fire!
-
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- -- Pat Monardo
- -- pjm@cshl.org
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