Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!iuvax!inuxc!pickle From: pickle@inuxc.UUCP (Greg Pickle) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: DEC does NOT have an SVID OS Message-ID: <1369@inuxc.UUCP> Date: 23 Jun 88 19:42:17 GMT References: <556@n8emr.UUCP> <1936@ssc-vax.UUCP> <581@tapa.UUCP> <254@sdba.UUCP> <579@wsccs.UUCP> <10470@mcdchg.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Consumer Products, Indianapolis Lines: 40 > I have it on good authority that DEC now has System V Release 3 in their > price book. My authority says that the big company he works for asked > DEC to make it a real product so that the big company could sell it as > part of a deliverable for a U.S. Gov't dept/agency. I wouldn't be at > all surprised if your DEC salesman denies it all. Sure makes a good > rumor though, doesn't it! > -- > Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.UUCP Moderator: comp.newprod & comp.unix > "Failure is one of the basic Freedoms!" The Doctor (in Robots of Death) DEC currently sells System V Release 2, but only to ATT and the old Bell operating companies. I think they also will sell to other folks in the same line of business but am not sure where they draw the line. I was told recently by our local sales rep that DEC has now signed the Sys V Rel III license. DEC has a Sys V org of some kind in NJ. Our local rep has been quite impressed with their work. DEC's cluster equipment can be used with Sys V where it apparently is not yet supported on Ultrix or has just recently become available. DEC's Symmetric Multi-Processing stuff was avail- able for the 8820 series under Sys V the day the machine was announced which was even before VMS supported it. SMP will also be available for the 8830 & 8840 before VMS has it. Since the OSF announcement it hasn't been possible to get any kind of reliable information out of the local DEC folks on how their Sys V support is going to be impacted. One local rep was told by a national rep that it "was business as usual". The local guy and I both thought that was more a pious hope than a reality. The impression I got, filtered through experience in a large company, was that DEC's Sys V org was taken by surprise and perhaps wasn't aware of the OSF thing before the rest of the world. As someone from a western DEC lab said (Brian Reid?), large corporations are not monolithic, and there are often dif- ferences of opinion between divisions. Greg Pickle ...!att!inuxc!pickle ...!iuvax!inuxc!pickle Disclaimer: These are my opinions, not ATT's.