re sgi sales practices was crimson was kubota announcement olson anchor esd sgi com dave olson writes but surely you don t expect a system you buy now for a five year period to be constantly upgradable over that entire five year period what s sort of interesting about this whole thread is just how much it has in common with similar threads in groups dealing with other vendor s hardware i currently deal basically with hardware from vendors apple dec and sgi and thus tend to monitor the groups about those vendor s hardware currently it seems like sgi customers are pissed at sgi about dropping support for the personal iris dec customers are pissed at dec for dropping mips support in favor of the new alpha boxes and apple customers seem to get pissed every time a new mac is introduced that s faster and cheaper than the one they just bought when i used to be a sun customer years ago i remember people being pissed at sun for leaving their and x customers out in the cold when sparc came along what s really interesting is that from what i can tell the mis folks in the basement with their es don t seem to be pissed at ibm why i have no idea either ibm really does take care of their customers better or they just have their customers brainwashed better than the smaller vendors do roy smith roy nyu edu hippocrates project department of microbiology coles nyu school of medicine first avenue new york ny this never happened to bart simpson
