From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 1 16:38:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA09538 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 16:38:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA09533 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 16:38:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA09537; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 17:19:25 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199612020019.RAA09537@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Alpha (was Re: COMDEX trip report) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 17:19:25 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jehamby@lightside.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <5015.849486503@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Dec 1, 96 04:28:23 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.