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From: drs@bnlux0.bnl.gov (David R. Stampf)
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Subject: Re: Boycott Apple Again -- Now about Suns
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Date: 15 Sep 88 13:51:46 GMT
References: <358@island.uu.net> <626@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <14301@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <406@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu>
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In article <406@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes:
>You might start by reading the sun-spots digest - you'll see enough bug
>reports to make your eyes bug out. Just as the most trivial of problems,
>you might wonder at the coined phrase (sorry, I forget who I'm stealing
>this from) "the connector is the network."
>
>Lots and lots of problems, no single one of which renders a Sun totally
>unusable, but altogether adding up to too many headaches. Bad network
>support, flaky network services, etc. etc. etc... For a company whose
>motto is "the network is the computer" it's pretty disgusting how
>poorly their network software runs.
>

	I wasn't going to respond to this figuring that there would be a
huge response from Sun users, but since it wasn't posted to the sun newsgroup
I'll put in my $.02 worth.

	I've had a Sun on my desk for 4 years now, and my department has
about a dozen.  Schools by us have Sun's by the 100's.  Compared to other
machines, Sun's software is top notch and we frequently use the sun's to
monitor our networks.  I really think that Howard's opinions are in the
minority viewpoint.  So much so in fact, that it would be interesting to
find out what he *would* recommend to his worst enemies as an alternative.

	< dave stampf