Re: Sun Management Smokes Crack, Goes Bonkers
From: Logan Shaw (lshaw-usenet_at_austin.rr.com)
Date: 03/24/05
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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 01:22:37 GMT
Rich Teer wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Logan Shaw wrote:
>>It's not such a good compromise if you're Sun and you're trying to
>>put together a good "value proposition" that customers will find
>>appealing enough to choose. The thing is, basically every other
>>operating system (including Windows, OS X, and most forms of Linux)
>>lets you buy once and then get free upgrades for quite some time.
>>The fact that Sun does not now offer this option means that new
>>customers are going to find Sun's system confusing. People don't
>>like confusing. They like familiar. Unfamiliar is a turn-off.
> Hmm? I htink you misunderstood. Solaris 10 update releases will
> continue to be free for all and sundry. As will Security (and
> Recommended?) patches. What WILL (and currently does) require a
> support contract is access to ad hoc patches that are not in the
> Recommended cluster.
I'm find with Security plus Recommended. But I was under the
impression that it was going to be only Security. If Recommended
is included too, then that's a totally different story, at least
for me personally.
- Logan
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