[advocacy-discuss] Petition to renew Sun's Sparc workstation product line

[Dan Roberts]

Thanks Sean, many of us mktg types do read and pay attention to 
everyone's feedback.   This one is largely a HW team call, though guess 
that's me too now that we're in the Systems group...  I'll pass it along 
for sure.

Dan

James Dickens wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Sean Sprague <sks at cvok.co.uk 
> <mailto:sks at cvok.co.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     Brandon,
> 
>      > It seems that Sun's commitment to providing Sparc workstations
>     quietly ended a few months ago.  Please help turn this around by
>     providing your digital signature and suggestions on the following
>     petition:
>      >
>      > http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/renew-sparc-workstations
>      >
> 
>     I realize that petitioning is often (though not always) a valid means of
>     coercion, but I feel that starting a petition through advocacy-discuss
>     will not result in your goal; and I suggest that you take it elsewhere.
> 
>     Regards... Sean.
> 
> 
> I disagree sounds like as good of place as any... especially since a 
> number of Sun's marketing folks hang out here, and I wouldn't be the 
> first in the community to say that Sun's Marketing has lost touch with 
> Sun's customers not to mention the Solairs community as a whole. I would 
> think they would like to hear what its customers are thinking unless 
> they are convinced that CEO's and CIO's are the only people that are 
> importnat enough to care about.
> 
> If a member of the community would like to advocate for Sun to get back 
> into the sparc workstation market, it doesn't seem to be that far out of 
> line since they will be running Solaris on these workstations.
> 
> James Dickens
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