Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 17:19:25 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jehamby@lightside.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Alpha (was Re: COMDEX trip report) Message-ID: <199612020019.RAA09537@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <5015.849486503@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Dec 1, 96 04:28:23 pm
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> True enough, though I'm slightly surprised that they've no second > sources lined up by now. Don't most govn't contracts outright > *require* the presence of a second source before they'll sign a check? > You'd think that DEC would have at least played enough of the > game to get someone like Fujitsu lined up as a second source. You *can* get "sole source" justification for purchasing something that can only be acquired from a single vendor; it's just a pain. DEC gets around it by having other people sell Alpha-based machines, so the machines are not sole-sourced. The governement doesn't care where the components come from (or Intel would be having the same problem with any bid which includes their new processors before they are coned by IBM or whoever). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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