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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: 12 Jan 2025 07:05:24 GMT
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On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 23:08:26 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

>    They rely on The Name a bit too much, it's supposed to mean
>    'quality', 'the best', to customers. There WAS a span where that was
>    kinda true, maybe 1950 to 1970.

As long as the customers have deep pockets. Typically PSAPs don't. The 
RS6000s were nice systems but after about 2000 people started doing 
comparison shopping. It wasn't only the base system. There are technical 
arguments for SCSI drives but the sticker shock on a replacement from IBM 
made plain old Western Digital platters look good.

DB2 is more of the same. It's good but talking to IBM for site licenses is 
best done with your hand on your wallet.