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From: tenser@spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu (Dan Cross)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.osf.osf1
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6
Date: 7 Dec 1996 04:33:24 -0500
Organization: Penn State ECSEL Computer Laboratory
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In article <57shh0$o3u@web.nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote:
>I sure hope Sun keeps screwing up like this, it'll mean more broken
>transitions in the future when they finally catch on, and frankly I'd
>love to see more folks running Digital UNIX instead of Solaris... it's
>a much more pleasant environment to work in.

Amen.  I'm starting to grow very weary of Sun shoving their proprietary
solutions down the throats of their users (NIS+, for example).  Digital
UNIX is, IMHO, a much easier platform to develop for and to administrate.
It's a shame that DEC has lost so much market ground to what amount to
technically inferior solutions (such as Sun).

	- Dan C.