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- From: alan@cnswalan.cern.ch (Alan Silverman)
- Subject: EightPAC futures
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.135844.6611@dxcern.cern.ch>
- Sender: news@dxcern.cern.ch (USENET News System)
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 13:58:44 GMT
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- I am currently negotiating the purchase of EightPAC from SUN; for those
- you don't know it, this is a package of 8 products (hence the name :-))
- including C, Fortran, C++, GKS, etc. In the middle of discussions about
- price and conditions, along comes SUNpro and announces new products with
- names like SPARCcompilers, SPARCworks Professional families and SPARCworks
- Development Tools. Apart from the obvious advantage (?) of getting new
- versions of particular compilers (vendors always take bugs out of new
- versions, never put bugs in, right guys?), these new products have such
- nice features as floating licences, development tools, online documentation,
- and so on.
-
- I have asked my local salesman what is the relationship, if any, between
- these new products and the EightPAC I was offered when discussions
- started. He cannot answer and so far has been unable to get an answer
- from on high (is that why SUN HQ is at Mountain View?).
-
- Anyone out there with EightPAC and a valid maintenance contract who can
- answer if these new compilers with corresponding new features will be
- eventually delivered to existing EightPAC customers?
-
- REReplies here or by mail (alan@cnswalan.cern.ch). If there is a lot of
- interest, I'll post a summary.
-
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- Alan Silverman
- UNIX Workstation Support Manager
- CERN
- Geneva
- Switzerland
-