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Article #872Re: Why are Sun's y2k patches *NOT* publicly available???
From: Barry Margolin
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 00:00
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In article <6dchtn$319$1@lios.apana.org.au>, Craig Dewick <cdewick@lios.apana.org.au> wrote: >Can someone from Sun justify making these patches available only to contract >maintenance customers, when there is a significant proportion of clients, >customers, administrators, users, etc. who can't afford maintenance >contracts (such as myself) for the machines they are responsible for, and >therefore will be left with systems that aren't completely y2k complient >unless the y2k patches are made available to everyone. To play Devil's Advocate, if patches are so important to you, perhaps you need to find a way to afford the service contracts. Compare the cost of not being Y2K-compliant to the cost of the service contract. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@bbnplanet.com GTE Internetworking, Powered by BBN, Cambridge, MA *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f88e1,eed8b29fd4fd9b52 X-Google-Attributes: gidf88e1,public X-Google-Thread: 1070f0,eed8b29fd4fd9b52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1070f0,public X-Google-Thread: f6653,eed8b29fd4fd9b52 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6653,public X-Google-Thread: 10d053,eed8b29fd4fd9b52 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d053,public From: Barry Margolin <barmar@bbnplanet.com> Subject: Re: Why are Sun's y2k patches *NOT* publicly available??? Date: 1998/03/02 Message-ID: <GstK.3$hY3.37352@cam-news-reader1.bbnplanet.com> X-Deja-AN: 329938175 References: <6dchtn$319$1@lios.apana.org.au> Organization: GTE Internetworking, Cambridge, MA NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 02:45:42 EST Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,aus.computers.sun,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc Originator: barmar@bbnplanet.com (Barry Margolin)