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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!sangam!shakti!riyer
- From: riyer@shakti.ncst.ernet.in (Rajappa Iyer)
- Subject: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
- Message-ID: <BzI0Ls.GGo@shakti.ncst.ernet.in>
- Organization: CMIE, Bombay
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 08:51:27 GMT
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- I am a fairly recent reader of this group -- but even in the short time
- that I have been reading it, I find it increasingly hard to ignore the
- fact that Sun seems to be fucking its customers over. The new LX series
- are a case in point. Sun users cannot plonk for the new machines no
- matter *how* attractive the pricing for the simple reason that they
- have already invested in apps for SunOS 4.1.x. My organization is also
- one of the few "victims." It's all very well for Sun/Solaris proponents
- to say "Oh but you can *still* buy old machines and run SunOS 4.1.x on
- it." That's precisely the kind of trap I wished to avoid when I switched
- to Sun. I want to be able to run the same apps on newer and faster machines.
-
- Isn't anybody at Sun doing their homework right?
-
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- Rajappa Iyer riyer@shakti.ncst.ernet.in
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