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RE: [cobalt-users] What's this?
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] What's this?
- From: "Peter Masloch" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Jun 5 15:36:01 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Hmm...SUN also took over Star Office. Now people have to pay
for it (it was free before). Do i see there a line???
> > Yes Sun aquired Cobalt, an independent company. now we got
> > some real support.. Sun has always been the best in my book,
> > when it comes to reliability. We own several Cobalt 4i and 4r
> > servers and all of them have been flawless, with the
> > exception of user error:))
>
> So tell me as an ex Cobalt employee what has Sun done to the
> RaQ4 since they acquired Cobalt? The Raq4 was well out in
> the wild long before Sun came along apart from that they've
> changed the support model with Cobalt you got free support
> not the fee based system in place now.
>
> I'm not sure I see your line, don't get me wrong I'm not anti
> Sun but I still don't think they were the best company to
> have bought Cobalt. Sun have had to be brought kicking and
> screaming into the Linux world despite all they said publicly
> that was not what went on behind the scenes it has only been
> this year that inside Sun has been working with Linux as well
> as talking about it the new servers are a testament to that
> but they did complete the purchase of Cobalt in December 2000
> a long time ago in the internet age!
>
> Gavin
>
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