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Re: Research Systems Platform Support Update [message #28338 is a reply to message #28326]

Tue, 04 December 2001 03:35

Struan Gray
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Registered: December 1995

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Matthew Powell, mpowell@rsinc.com writes:

> In response to customer requests for continued
> support of Mac OS X, IBM AIX and Compaq Tru64
> Unix for Alpha platforms, Research Systems Inc.
> (RSI) announced today that it will reverse an
> earlier decision to drop support for these three
> platforms in future releases of IDL and ENVI.

As someone who complained publically about the intial decision, I
hereby issue a public "whew, thanks." Of course, the proof of the
pudding is in the eating, but this is enough of a taster for me to
continue maintainance for a little while yet.

I shouldn't really be surprised, but does anyone else feel their
intelligence being insulted by these two statements:

> For the Macintosh OS X platform, .....
> ...
> This essentially allows RSI to support Mac OS X as
> another Unix platform, thus reducing the costs of
> development and support.
> ...
> there will be a corresponding modest increase in
> maintenance and new license prices for the Macintosh
> platform in order to cover the associated development
> and support costs.

What they mean of course, is that since MacOS X is really Unix, Mac
licences are really Unix licences, and Unix licences cost more. Shall
we have a sweepstake on the value of 'modest'?

Struan

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		Re: Research Systems Platform Support Update By: Stein Vidar Hagfors H[1] on Tue, 04 December 2001 10:46
		Re: Research Systems Platform Support Update By: Struan Gray on Tue, 04 December 2001 03:35
		Re: Research Systems Platform Support Update By: Richard French on Mon, 03 December 2001 21:32
		Re: Research Systems Platform Support Update By: Knaepen Bernard on Mon, 03 December 2001 20:08
		Re: Research Systems Platform Support Update By: Paul Woodford on Mon, 03 December 2001 19:58
		Re: Research Systems Platform Support Update By: gurman on Mon, 03 December 2001 12:42

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