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From: bgsuvax!herber@cis.ohio-state.edu (Steve Herber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: CDROM distribution of SUN software
Keywords: Miscellaneous
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Date: 30 Dec 90 01:04:00 GMT
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Last year, I got a letter from Sun stating layered products would no
longer be distributed on 1/2-inch tape, only 1/4-inch cartridges.  I used
that as one of my arguments to get in a 1/4-inch tape drive for my group
of workstations I manage.

Within the last couple of months, I start hearing that CDROM will be the
ONLY meands of distribuition of SunOS in 1991.

Am I alone in thinking I got jerked around thinking that my software
distribution problems were resolved by purchasing the 1/4-inch tape and
then being 'forced' into picking up a CD reader?

Now, I know that SUN is pricing the CDROM readers at attractive levels
(<$500 for a school) but there are some catches.  I only have a SCSI
interface on my Sun 3 systems, not the Sun 4 and the CDROM is not
supported on the Sun 3 architechure.  That $500 cost is now $2000 when I
have to pick up a SCSI interface also.

I just feel that I wasn't given the full scoop early on and that makes me
look like a idiot when I have to go back and ask for additional equipment
AGAIN because Sun says I can't live without it.

Any takers?

Steve Herber			Internet	herber@andy.bgsu.edu
Systems Programming Manager	BITNET		HERBER@BGSUOPIE
Bowling Green State Univ.	UUCP		...!osu-cis!bgsuvax!herber