[SunRescue] Re: Looking for SS20

[Ken Hansen]

And I was rambling, I didn't want to live through a litany of
all the folks with 12 Meg SS 1+ machines running DNS, router,
Samba, and WWW/FTP services for their Fortune 1000 company...

And don't get me started on Dave McGuire's closet full of $30
SS/2s... ;^)

Ken


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 11:43 AM
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Subject: [SunRescue] Re: Looking for SS20



no apologies necessary as far as i'm concerned. i was just
ranting!

Ken Hansen writes:

> Just a note to some of the follow-ups to my previous post - I
was discussing
> the <b>spending of cash</b> on an SS/20, <i><b>not the
usefulness of an
> SS/20 or other "mature" platform</b></i>.
>
> I quote from my previous post:
>
>     I would be very hesitant to open my wallet and spend
*cash* of
>     any magnatude on SBUS SPARC hardware.
>
> and also note, nearly every paragraph for each platform
discussed talks
> about the <b>value</b> of the box, not the <b>usefulness or
functional
> value</b> but the financial value.
>
> I apologize if that was not clear in my original posting.
>
> Ken
> (Who does see much value in the functions performed by my SS/5
110, SS/10 &
> SS/20, and even my SB 3GXen, BTW)


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Paul Theodoropoulos
paul at anastrophe.net
Senior Unix Systems Administrator
Syntactically Subversive Services, Inc.
http://www.anastrophe.net
Downtime Is Not An Option

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