Re: Donations? Re: [cobalt-users] More Comments on the Lists

[Larry Smith <lesmith@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 09 May 2004 18:47, Zeffie wrote:
> Well I'm sure I could do that I just have no idea how to control it unless
> I do all the work with something like the control station...  which would
> just be a matter of me changing my service plans... maybe I just answered
> my own question.... how much would you pay for control station monitoring,
> messages and updates?

Difficult to say in this forum right off the bat.  Control should not be 
difficult though.  When I pay my cisco contract, I get a "login" and password 
that provides access to online help, downloads, updates, etc.  Same with 
Nortel and patton.  I would imagine a fairly simple structure where 
people/sites/whatever that have paid their "support" contract would get 
access to whatever was available.  A "list" function could keep everyone 
informed about what is there and what are "critical" updates, reliability 
updates, and so forth...

The caution here is that the further we "drive" this into a "paid" support 
posture - the more people will dump their blue boxes and go to something else 
- which will kill Cobalt much quicker than Sun dropping it.  Low (meaning 
reasonable) priced support - with lists such as this one to help those either 
struggling or starting out with something will keep the boxes going long 
after the Sun logo has faded....

-- 
Larry Smith
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