Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 11:46:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Goodnight Whistle? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990820113546.1212E-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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Forwarded message: > From: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> > Subject: Goodnight Whistle? > > I just received the notice that Whistle has discontinued the majority > of its product line due to (among other things) "higher than expected > demand", and "Whistle's aquisition by IBM". Yes, we are transitionning to a new product (see (I think it was June) PCweek for a description of the new product. We made enough of the old model to last till the transition but suddenly there was an increase and change in demand and we ran out of some of them. > > I wonder what will become of this FreeBSD "success story". It will keep going. > > Personally I think it was a mistake to continue selling a 486 with 8MB > RAM, a 1GB hard drive, and a 28.8 modem for $2000. Particularly since > there were no major technological improvements to the product since it > was introduced. The last major upgrade seemed almost entirely > cosmetic. The last major upgrade was mostly bugfixes in preparation for the VERY different version about to come out. BTW the best release to be on at the moment is 3.2.1p7. > > Unfortunately, it's proprietary, so with Whistle no longer working on > it there's no possibility of fixing/improving it ourselves. I think > I'm going to start looking for a similar hardware platform to develop > something similar. We are no longer selling that model as we ran out but we ARE still supporting it and the new ones will replace it. If we were to go under I'm pretty sure we'd make the sources available so you COULD maintain it, but now we are part of IBM I can't see that (going under) happenning any time soon. > > Maybe I'm just in a bad mood, since this seems to have been EOL week > for ISP equipment. It is not EOL for whistle interjet, it's end of model year basically, that's all. we just had a stuffup where we mispredicted the demand and have an unvortunate gap in availability between the old one and the new one. The old IJs will continue to be suported and have upgrades as well. My own information on the announcement is that only certain models (the ones we ran out of) were discontinued. I'm glad that a misaprehension of our demise causes someone so much grief. It's kinda reassuring really :-) julian (BTW this was forwarded to me.. I'm not on the list so keep me in the loop) > -- > Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications > chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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