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- From: Bhupinder Singh <bsingh@CERF.NET>
- Subject: Re: Public Domain Software for Intergraph (Was: Why no response from ...)
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- Reply-To: alt-sys-intergraph@ingr.com
- Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 11:49:05 CST
- Message-ID: <1993Jan09.114905.18097@SPM>
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- >
- >First of all, an introduction. I am Jim Kanya and I am the Vice Chairman
- >of the System Operations SIG for IGUG (formerly the Unix SIG).
- >
- >In article <C0JM72.op@nik.b30.ingr.com>, nik@nik.b30.ingr.com (Nik Simpson) writes:
- >> I believe the reason we do not offer an ftp site for Intergraph
- >> customers are:
- >
- >We have had many discussions about this in the past and Intergraph has
- >refused to be the FTP site. Their reasons were stated by Nik and I
- >tend to agree with the reasons. We thought we found a customer willing to
- >be an FTP site at last spring's IGUG, but it never panned out.
- >
- I think too much is being made of this. A firewalled anon ftp site is
- pretty trivial to set up. You might ask why I dont volunteer then ?
- Two reasons
- 1- I think this is something that ingr should provide. It is a selling point
- for them.
-
- 2- I am on a dialup access to the Internet :( :(
-
- The reason that not many people will use it seems a trifle lame. With all
- government,DOT's, defense contractors that Intergraph sells to on the internet
- "If you build it they will come". How many customers even know there is
- an alt.sys.intergraph ? Also many commercial sites I know of dont even carry
- alt news groups. BTW is this alt newsgroup freely available at ingr ?
-
- Selling PD CD's doesn't hack it at all. Turn arounds in getting patches, bug
- fixes, new versions, exchanging trivial software all get interminably dragged
- out, as well as is being a more expensive option.
-
- IMHO these are the very things Intergraph should be doing to have a higher
- visibility in the business.
-
- Bhupinder "grep comp.sys | wc -l => 131" Singh
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