At 09:43 AM 3/22/2002, you wrote: >Paul Jacobs wrote: > > > Looks like SUN once again has managed to slip it's users the finger, after > > they sell the hardware :( > >My warranty was over a long time ago; don't know about yours. > >If you look at Sun, if you look at Microsoft and Windows, if you look at >Dell, if you look at any server vendor at all, ou'll find that you buy >your hardware, and you buy software maintenance either from the same >vendor, or from a third party vendor (such as us) or you build your own >software maintenance expertise in-house. Or you complain. > >Years ago I was a senior programmer analyst for a large mortgage bank. >We used a hybrid network of Novell and Windows NT servers to support >over 1,000 Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS workstations. Our maintenance budget >was well over a million dollars a year.
Yea, I hear you.. were you using 3.12 or 4.xx novel ?. I worked on a similar system with 3,500 users at solar turbines in san diego and it was a hellish nightmare, the IPX/SPX protocol from microsoft worked better than the one from novell, but company policy was to install the novell client... >Jeff >-- >Jeff Lasman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Linux and Cobalt/Sun/RaQ Consulting >nobaloney.net >P. O. Box 52672, Riverside, CA 92517 >voice: (909) 778-9980 * fax: (702) 548-9484 >_______________________________________________ >cobalt-security mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-security _______________________________________________ cobalt-security mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-security
