John D Groenveld <groenvel@cse.psu.edu> wrote:
> In article <52HSj.237348$pM4.71479@pd7urf1no>,
> Colin B. <cbigam@somewhereelse.shaw.ca> wrote:
>>Now from a business point of view, Sun is really NOT holding themselves
>>together. Great product, good support (as much as we complain, it's still
>>well above average in this industry), and a remarkable ability to screw
>
> Please name names.

Veritas. Storagetek, pre-Sun. Oracle. Nortel. All of them were pretty
horrible. Then there are application vendors, who could all be lined up
against a wall and shot, without harming their support. HP was pretty
good when I last dealt with them, but that was nearly a decade ago. Netapp
is pretty good at most things, except they're (even!) worse than Sun about
solving everything by upgrades. They tend not to fix bugs in a given
version, once a new version is released.

Colin