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- From: paulr@fulcrum.oz.au (Paul Rosham)
- Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.234713.18246@fulcrum.oz.au>
- Organization: The Fulcrum Consulting Group
- References: <1dtssaINN59p@life.ai.mit.edu> <1992Nov13.000938.9002@ultra.com> <shawni.721682218@tis.llnl.gov> <SGW.92Nov16183750@howison.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:47:13 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- sgw@athena.mit.edu (stephen g. wadlow) writes:
-
- >I agree. I'm losing a lot of trust in Sun, and have started looking
- >into other vendors. Sun is getting into the habit of coming out with
- >something new and trying to force it's users into it. I do not like
- >having my hand forced on an issue.
-
- I recall, when working for Sun _3 years_ ago, that
- 1. SunOS would migrate to a SVR4-based OS
- 2. All Sun workstations would be SPARC based
- 3. Sun would try to double price-performance every year or so
-
- That has been Sun's "habit" for the last 10 years, albeit that point 3 can be
- interpreted fairly fast and loose.
-
- >Given how quickly Sun dropped the
- >Sun3 line (when there weren't many choices in what workstations were
- >out there) and how hard Sun is pushing Solaris (because you already
- >*have* all of these sparcstations, what choice do you have as to which
- >OS you run?)
-
- Are you not listening? Are Sun lying to you?
-
- >I really have to wonder how quickly Sun is going to drop
- >support for the 32 bit machines once the 64 bit sparc processors are
- >out.
-
- Check up on SPARC version 9, it includes 32 bit application support. 64 bit
- machines will not be on everyone's desk real soon now, anyway.
-
- >I agree. 4 years ago, I bought Suns because there wasn't much to
- >choose from and they seemed to have the best deals. Today, I have a
- >much larger choice, and there's a lot of stuff out there worth a look...
-
- Right, away you go then. I hope that you like the story other vendors are
- telling you...
- {Well, our main thrust is to a OpenVMS,OSF/1,Ultrix and NT based
- system with POSIX extensions, object-orientation and a dash of
- paprika. Would you like fries with that?}
-
- -PaulR
- [Disclaimer: Don't take yourself or myself so _seriously_. I only really want
- to offent people in alt.tasteless]
-