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- From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH)
- Subject: Re: Destiny X Dell, Esix, Microport etc.
- Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.org (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH)
- Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:59:48 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.005948.11363@NCoast.ORG>
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- References: <14rvigINNsb8@agate.berkeley.edu> <2A740945.6FC7@telly.on.ca>
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- As quoted from <2A740945.6FC7@telly.on.ca> by evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch):
- +---------------
- | I know ESIX committed early on to Solaris, but is re-evaluating the
- | situation. The company does not want to plunge into both Solaris and
- | R4.2, but wants to make sure it chooses what will be the best long-term
- | path. As a source licencee of Solaris, ESIX would not be restricted by
- | some of the claims presently made about it (ie, distribution only on CD-ROM).
- | But there appear to be many desirable features in 4.2 which Solaris
- | won't have (ie, swictable Motif and OL look-and-feel).
- |
- | Are there any comments on the net, based on the available knowledge,
- | about the plusses and minuses of Solaris 2.0 vs. System V R4.2, from the
- | viewpoint of a poptential source licensee?
- +---------------
-
- From the viewpoint of a source license? Hard for me to say at this point.
- But consider---
-
- Solaris is intended as a high-end workstation environment. Sun has never
- claimed that Solaris was intended to compete for the low- and mid-end markets;
- SVR4.2 is claimed to target both (I have my doubts --- but much hope --- about
- the low end). The two products really don't seem to overlap that much.
-
- Which is not to say that a source licensee wouldn't be able to strip it down,
- but the result would most likely be indistinguishable from SVR4.2, so why
- bother with the extra effort when it's already been done for you in R4.2?
-
- From what (admittedly little) I know about Everex/Esix's Unix clientele, I
- suspect SVR4.2 would be the *much* better choice. In fact, I'd be hard put to
- locate a market for Solaris/Intel at all; the high-end folks generally don't
- bother with Intel-based iron.
-
- ++Brandon
- P.S. Yes, the above means I've written off Solaris/Intel as a viable product.
- --
- Brandon S. Allbery, KF8NH [44.70.4.88]: allbery@NCoast.ORG, bsa@telotech.com
- Senior Programmer, Telotech, Inc. (if I may call myself that...)
-