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To: David Kelly who wrote (34703)	8/26/2000 12:30:42 PM
From: JDN	Respond to of 64865

Dear David: Yes, I remember that handgun comment. Like Lynn says just another advertising ploy. Be interesting to see if SUNW responds at all to it. JDN

To: David Kelly who wrote (34703)	8/26/2000 5:13:12 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 64865

David - the earlier report was a different problem - a batch of bad I/O modules got out. These kind of problems can happen to any vendor, and evidence suggests that in both the case of the memory and the I/O, only a small number of customers were affected, although the I/O problem was later shown to be more pervasive when SUNW finally went public about it. I don't think SUNW has any obligation to put on the hair shirt over issues like this, but putting customers under NDA about a system problem was just stupid and set the stage for ugly PR down the road. Better to have put a strong customer program in place to fix the problem, then have all the PR machinery in place to deal with the issue if and when it hits the press.