From: zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au (Paul Repacholi) Subject: Re: NT vs Linux (was: Re: truth or dare) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 20:48:39 GMT
In article <218d8l$llg@flode.nvg.unit.no>, agulbra@nvg.unit.no (Arnt Gulbrandsen) writes:
> In article <1993Jul4.204757.17842@muug.mb.ca> rgallen@muug.mb.ca (Rennie Allen) writes:
> ...
>>Deployment, of a major mission critical system for our company, I can call
>>somebody up and have that bug fixed in 24 hours ? Who do I call ?
>
> Please give me an example of a major OS or workstation vendor who's fixed a
> bug within 24 hours of your reporting it. Tandem, OK, but Tandem Non-Stop
> machines aren't in the same class. HP, DEC, Sun, SGI or IBM, MS, have any
> of them _ever_ fixed a bug (not just given you an already-existing patch)
> within 24 hours of your reporting it?
DEC. Twice. Both bugs in the file system that trashed disks. But, as I said
before, the 12 hr time difference helps, plus being able to shove it
straight through to VMS engineering.
Mind you, I've got another one that has gone nowhere in 12 months ;-(
and it's going to wipe some poor bastards data all over the floor one
day!
~Paul