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- From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
- Subject: Re: What's Happening to ISC UNIX?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.001056.21138@pegasus.com>
- Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu
- References: <1g61anINN1o6@stp.West.Sun.COM> <1992Dec10.152342.2185@rwwa.COM> <1992Dec11.161912.4366@rwwa.COM>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 00:10:56 GMT
- Lines: 58
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- >An update:
- >
- >I have gotten mail from Karen, and a call from Anthony, stating that Anthony
- >was incorrect about the $195 ``migration'' offer. She maintains that the
- >``migration'' will be free. She also states that only about 5% of the
- >purchasers of ISC SVR4 actually registered the product. I can see that this
- >would raise a problem in notifying licensees about the migration policy for
- >those who purchased SVR4 through a distributor. It seems like Sunsoft could
- >get the records for those who purchased directly through ISC, however. I
- >don't know what proportion of the customers did this...
-
- Heh, heh. I'm not so sure ISC really kept any records on its customers.
- The only time we heard from them was when we made the call (yes we bought
- from them directly.)
-
- >I wonder if other customers share my ambivalence about this offer:
- >
- >PLUS:
- >
- > [...]
- >
- >2) Those who use SunOs like it. This will probably be true of Solaris.
-
- How can we be sure that Sun isn't stringing us along and planning to
- offer a Unix that's missing a few items here and there. So they can
- say, `hmm, sounds like you need a Sun Workstation.'
-
- Nah, they wouldn't do that ...
-
- >3) Support and quality is likely to be vastly superior to that offered
- >by ISC.
-
- Always easy to say `vastly superior' when comparing to the non-existant.
-
- And if certain important features take an extra year or two to materialize
- then it could easily be worse.
-
- >4) The free migration certainly beats the ``competitive'' upgrades currently
- >offered by other SVR4 vendors...
-
- Not if you factor in the lost time from messing with ISC SVR4.
-
- >MINUS:
- >
- > [...]
- >
- >2) Lack of dos merger in the migration. This means nothing to me, but it
- >might be important to others. Besides, considering the price, buying the
- >new version should not be a big deal.
-
- Ah, the problem I mentioned. And Sun's DOS emulator for their own
- workstations was hobbled (not sure if it still is), will a complete one
- be available for their 386 unix?
-
-
-
- --
- Richard Foulk richard@pegasus.com
-