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- From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
- Subject: Re: Solaris 2.x: resistance to it?
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- References: <1dsjidINNcrv@cae.cad.gatech.edu> <1992Nov18.141013.22833@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> <1eegc3INNlte@early-bird.think.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 22:19:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.141013.22833@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> Thomas.Weihrich@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Thomas Weihrich) writes:
- |>Yes, at Augsburg University folks are not moving to Solaris 2.x.
- |...
- |>So I guess we'll be using the Sun machines until they
- |>break apart and then move to a different vendor (probably DEC).
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- barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
- |If you think converting from a Sun running Solaris 1.x to a Sun running
- |Solaris 2.x is too painful to contemplate, what makes you think that
- |converting to a DEC system running OSF/x or Windows NT will be any easier?
- |At least Solaris 2.x claims it will run well-behaved Solaris 1.x
- |executables.
-
- Possibly because they have some DECs, HPs, IBMs, etc, etc, already.
-
- We have both. We make decisions based on total cost to move, not
- emotional attachment (although I cried when Old-Nexus-the-Sun3 rolled
- out the door, and laughed when the vendor rolled it back in and
- donated it back to us because it wasn't worth anything)
-
- --dave
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