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- From: shane@cs.sunysb.edu (Shane Bouslough)
- Subject: Re: It's Time for a Shakedown (was Re: A few answers to Dell Unix FAQ)
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- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:25:58 GMT
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- Andy Sherman (andys@flatline.sbi.com) wrote:
-
- : >>>>> Somebody wrote:
- :
- : anon> Come to think of it, Sun unbundled their C compiler because so
- : anon> many people were using GCC,
- :
- : >>>>> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) replied:
- :
- : guy> Nope. They unbundled it because they thought most of the
- : guy> customers they plan to get for their machines wouldn't know a C
- : guy> program if one bit them in the ass - and if they're successful,
- : guy> that'll probably be true....
- :
- : I wish people would stop being so snide about this. Consider a
- : business like ours. We have *lots* of Suns (big numbers, but the
- : details are probably proprietary). The vast majority of them are
- : either end-user workstations or servers running applications. There
- : a large number of developer workstations. An unbundled C compiler is
- : a big win for us, to the extent that the price of the basic OS goes
- : down. Our developers *do* know a C, C++, or F77 program, even if it
- : doesn't bite them in the ass. Our end users (by and large) do not.
- : They don't have to -- this is an investment bank, not an engineering
- : firm.
-
- I'm "anon", and from all I've read in SunExpert, etc., I'm still not
- convinced. Did the price of the OS *really* go down, or did the
- price of getting Sun's C compiler just ''go up'' since now you have
- to pay extra for it?
-
- : Andy Sherman
- : Salomon Inc - Unix Systems Support - Rutherford, NJ
- : (201) 896-7018 - andys@sbi.com or asherman@sbi.com
-
- -Shane
-
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