Re: Reality Check: HP-UX has no future

From: Abdullah Ramazanoglu (abdullah_at_ramazanoglu.tr)
Date: 10/03/04

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    Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 15:42:25 +0300

    begin cathy.arima@sun.com (Cathy Arima) dedi ki:

    > Less than two years after abandoning its inherited Tru64 UNIX
    > customers, HP seems on the same path once again to abandon another
    > one of its very loyal customer bases. This time it is its HP-UX UNIX
    > customer base, which is now beginning to see signs that HP may not
    > be committed to the HP-UX UNIX business for the long haul.
    >
    > Read about it here:
    > http://www.sun.com/executives/realitycheck/reality-091004.html?ssobm=ng

    Well, I'm an open source activist, an ex-admin of IBM mainframes and AIX,
    but never have I been a Sun user. Having lived long years in proprietary
    vendor circles, I am familiar with how it feels and how it leads people to
    be part of the vendor's world. It is particularly true for IBM, as a first
    hand personal experience. IME it was a closed clan of users centered
    around one vendor. It was even affecting the jargon we use.

    I was reborn into the open source world when I broke off the mental
    shackles of IBM more than 5 years ago. I'm telling this both to establish
    the background, and to invite you, an apparent Sun fan, into questioning
    Sun's position under a somewhat more objective light.

    I think Sun has both quitted being an open source ally in favor of
    Microsoft, and also their business decisions are very, very flawed to earn
    them a right to criticise HP. Of course these are my own thoughts, and I
    would like to know how Sun people think about Sun's new horizons.

    So, could you please comment on my two postings below?
    (They're both in the same thread)

    http://groups.google.com.tr/groups?as_umsgid=2rdr4uF19e6t9U1@uni-berlin.de
    http://groups.google.com.tr/groups?as_umsgid=2ri53rF1a8n1qU1@uni-berlin.de 

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