RE: [cobalt-users] The new $995 Sun UNIX(r)/RISC King of the road ! - Don't believe the F.U.D.!

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On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Brandon Wheaton wrote:

> 
> Jeff, why not encourage others to try new hardware platforms and 
> O/Ses for themselves instead of implying that "us Cobalt users" 
> aren't smart enough to set up and administer our own Solaris 
> based servers. Smells like F.U.D. to me. At 1/3 the cost of a RaQ3/4, 
> people will begin to realize soon enough that migrating to the Netra 
> X1 it is well worth the time and effort of learning real UNIX 
> administration and take off the Cobalt training wheels once and for 
> all. You know as well as I do that they will be better off in the 
> long run after Cobalt has been dissolved and Sun kills and stops 
> supporting the RaQ/Qube product line.


If you are correct in the assertion that the RaQ/Qube lines will be
dumped, it makes sense to me that someone begin working on an
adminstration suite that would allow relatively new "new-bees" like myself
to begin making the transition from the Cobalt training wheels(nice turn
of phrase) towards the unfettered system.

I would hope there's a middle ground between the training wheels and the
other extreme of no administration suite, no packages, ya' gotta be a
total guru to make it even boot up.

Thom

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