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

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Jacobs wrote:

> Yea, I hear you.. were you using 3.12 or 4.xx novel ?.

Don't remember, sorry.

> 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...

We had to use Novell; we had too many DOS machines.  We started the
transition from DOS to Windows while I was there; in fact I was very
influential in the decision...

One month, while the IT VP was out of town, the IT manager gave me a
high-powered (for it's day) system, and a 21" monitor, and we replaced
to DOS-based computers and one DEC terminal on my desk with one system
running Windows 3.1, running multiple DOS-sessions and one DEC
telnet-type session.  One DOS system was for development, one was for
testing programs against huge data files, and the DEC Vax was for simply
checking stuff in and out of CVS; at the time there wasn't a good CVS
repository for DOS.

The Windows box worked very well, though when the implementation was
rolled out, it was first for new hires, saving us about $10,000 per new
hire.  Using 17" monitors for them of course, though I was lucky enough
to keep my 21" monitor through my tenure.

Jeff
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