#Open Letter to CBM
07-Oct-91 01:46:22
Sb: #14964-#Open Letter to CBM
Fm: Rob Salmon 71420,471
To: Black Belt Systems 76004,1771
Ben, you are wrong about MSDOS prevailing in a partly-unix shop.
We bought *four* SPARC stations *solely* to run AutoCAD. Is it unix? Is it
Sun? Or both? I don't know, but we now have 16 SPARC's running
*BRILLIANTLY* with the Loyal Staff begging for more.
Sun/unix is driving MS/DOS out the door at my place. After the Suns
arrived, the L.S. started calling Banyan Vines "Dial a Prayer."
So, to fill in your blanks:
I don't miss any MSDOS aps; the ones we used weren't so hot to start with.
I'm delighted we switched to unix; it's GREAT to have a REAL network. And I
have great confidence in the future of open systems, since any individual
vendor is for the most part irrelevant.
BTW, Sun wins on *price* as well as on performance in our environment.
Rob.