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Symbolics Germany prices
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1991 11:13 CDT
From: Reti@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM (Kalman Reti)
Yes, unfortunately, in the past it looked like there would be resources to
develop and support more products than turned out to be true; many people
within Symbolics have argued that products like DNA should simply be
dropped completely because they aren't even close to finished. If Symbolics
Rather than "drop completely," I might suggest that support for each
subsystem be rated on a scale, ranging from "Vigorous Bug Fixing and
Ongoing Enhancement" (this presumably applies to CLIM, since Symbolics
has promised a CLIM 2.0) to "Unfinished and Unsupported" (apparently
this applies to DNA). Customers would then have a better idea what to
expect.
Lawrence G. Mayka
AT&T Bell Laboratories
lgm@iexist.att.com
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