At 06:06 AM 8/29/2002, you wrote:
>This is lamest excuse I have ever heard, and just shows Sun's complete lack
>of competance as far as the Cobalts go, or at least lack of willingness to
>put the proper resources into it. I used to work for a company that made
>infrastructure equipment for telecommunications carriers (Sprint, Verizon,
>Voicestream, etc). These products were way more complicated than the Cobalt
>and we had no problem releasing timely patches that worked. The fact is that
>the Cobalt is a simple product - a basic linux box with a web gui. Sun takes
>a month or more to release security patches that other Linux vendors release
>in hours.

Because they don't understand how Linux works... they only know Slowaris....


>I don't care about having all the latest and greatest features, I don't care
>if third party software runs on the box, but security issues MUST be
>resolved as soon as they are known. Sun is failing miserably on this.
>
>When are we going to get a patch for /usr/lib/authenticate?

Well sun is taking after microsoft.... they are emulating the one company 
they hate the most... why??? you guess is as good as mine.


>Tom
>

Paul Jacobs / SR. Network Manager
http://www.adv-data.com
MCP 2000, A+, CCNA, Network+

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