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Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ2 - Restore Help!



At 05:48 PM 2/4/00  Duncan Laurie wrote:

I would be suprised to learn that anyone from our support department reads this
list--its hard enough to keep up with the traffic from support@xxxxxxxxxxx
Consequently most of the Cobalt people you see on here are engineers, and we
are all working as hard as possible--though usually on future products... Why?
because Cobalt is a corporation, and like any other corporation it is expected
to make money.  The investors demand it, the shareholders demand it, and
therefore the executive staff and management demands it from us. This means we have barely enough time to finish a product (and in some cases not enough time)
before it is shipped out the door and we are already heavily involved in the
next project.... This (and minimal quality SQA testing) results in bugs--none
of us are proud of that.  But while would like to address it personally and
immediately, to do so would mean losing even more of our already precious free
time--beleive me Cobalt does not give us free time.  So instead we must wait
while an OS update is prepared and bugs are fixed, and then wait again while it
passes SQA--which hasn't been very effective lately.

While I certainly understand everything you're saying, I also know what it leads to: Eventually the word gets out, demand falls, and you have plenty of time.

Of course, in a public corporation you don't have plenty of time. You get laid off.

I've been using Linux since kernel v0.99, and never thought I'd want an appliance.

Recently, I sold out of a partnership and needed a quick way to host, so I said what the heck, bit bullet, and got a RaQ2.

While it works, it gives me few of the advantages of the interface, since the Interface doesn't do much of what I need. Yet at the same time it gives me all of the disadvantages of having a non-Intel system. So I doubt I'll get another.

At the same time, everything I read about the RaQ3 leads me to want to stay far, far away from that disaster.

So for me, the only upgrade path is to a non-Cobalt system.

Go figure.

Jeff

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