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From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6
Date: 26 Nov 1996 19:14:04 -0800
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In article <schendel-ya023080002611961906140001@news.fyi.net>,
Karl Schendel <schendel@fyi.net> wrote:

>Let me tell you in no uncertain terms that if OUR
>dbms vendor (Ingres) told us that we had to get a new release of Ingres
>to match a Solaris minor version update, we'd tell BOTH vendors to go
>straight to hell.
>...
>For me, inconvenience means dollars pissed down the drain.

So it's more inconvenient to get a new version of Ingres than it is to
move your entire application off of Sun and Ingres entirely?

cjs
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