Re: [cobalt-users] Re: No Solaris Petition

[Fabrice Prémel <fabrice@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>True.  But Sun seem to believe the Cobalt marketing - that it's an 
>appliance
>and as such we don't care what OS it's running.  I don't know if 
>there's any
>way of finding out, but how many Cobalt boxes have *never* had a 
>command line
>session run on them?  And how many have had a shell run from 
>necessity?
>

When we first got our RaQ, we used the Cobalt UI. We used it less and 
less as time got by. It's now off : the machine is too much 
customized for it, and it represents a security threat we didn't want 
to face. So, I *do* care what the underlying OS is. I now pretty much 
care just about that.

I tend to think that the more you use the box, the more you'll want 
shell acess. Which means that beside "we just got our Raq", a lot of 
people will one day or the other care about the OS.

Fabrice Prémel.