Re: [cobalt-security] SUN don't care about security update ?

[Paul Jacobs <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:43 AM 3/22/2002, you wrote:
> Paul Jacobs wrote:
>
> > Looks like SUN once again has managed to slip it's users the finger, after
> > they sell the hardware :(
>
> My warranty was over a long time ago; don't know about yours.
>
> If you look at Sun, if you look at Microsoft and Windows, if you look at
> Dell, if you look at any server vendor at all,  ou'll find that you buy
> your hardware, and you buy software maintenance either from the same
> vendor, or from a third party vendor (such as us) or you build your own
> software maintenance expertise in-house.  Or you complain.
>
> Years ago I was a senior programmer analyst for a large mortgage bank.
> We used a hybrid network of Novell and Windows NT servers to support
> over 1,000 Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS workstations.  Our maintenance budget
> was well over a million dollars a year.

Yea, I hear you.. were you using 3.12 or 4.xx novel ?.
I worked on a similar system with 3,500 users at solar turbines in san 
diego and it was a hellish nightmare, the IPX/SPX protocol from microsoft 
worked better than the one from novell, but company policy was to install 
the novell client...



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