[340] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Release Team Meeting Minutes, 7/27
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger A. Roach)
Fri Jul 28 13:18:13 1995
To: gjackson@MIT.EDU (Greg Jackson)
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU, tjm@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jul 1995 13:20:02 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 13:18:02 EDT
From: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
> >a. Do we need to do AIX 4.1? Can we avoid expending resources on
> >this platform?
>
> We need to find out whether IBM is interested in us
> as customers. If they aren't -- as appears to be the
> case -- then 4.1 provides us little value. However,
> if IBM plans to compete, then the 40P is cheap enough
> we really want to buy some.
I did a little poking and its seems they are very interested in
being a player, possibly to the extent of giving us some serious
equipment. I think Greg and I need to do some cost/benefit exercises.
>
> >b. Do we need to do the Alpha systems? Can we avoid expending
> >resources on this platform?
>
> I don't anticipate deploying Alpha clients, so only what's
> necessary to run them as servers needs work.
>
I agree for the time being, but at some point we may want to support Athena
type services on the administrative Alpha platforms.
Roger
