RE: [cobalt-users] Re: Future of Cobalt

[Thom LaCosta <baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Kevin Slaton wrote:

> I guess the only other way for sun to get the message is when they erode
> their customer base away enough that it starts to hit their pocket books.

But I think we lowly Server Appliance folks need to realize that as soon
as Sun decided NOT to go after that market place(Maytag Servers), we all
were no longer customers.

We're in a niche that Sun doesn't want, and a lot of us are hoping someone
will step up to the plate and woo us.

So, instead of debating Sun's policy/motivatio/vision we need to begin
planning what we'll do when the products now longer have any
support....and I don't think we can count on the VARs for help, since
VAR in the Cobalt sense may have been the same as distributor.

Thom