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- From: johnn@eskimo.com (John Navitsky)
- Subject: Re: LX and SUNOS 4.x - how ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.185236.14135@eskimo.com>
- Organization: =>ESKIMO NORTH (206) 367-3837 SEATTLE, WA.<=
- References: <ByzMur.9D8@micromuse.co.uk> <1992Dec10.132950.2827@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:52:36 GMT
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- Actually, there's something about this whole "I don't want to move to Solaris
- 2.0" thing that bothers me. It's not really about the end users either. It's
- about software vendors. As the one person in a previous post mentioned, he
- *had* to stay with 4.x. To me that means his software vendor did not support
- Solaris 2.0, was no longer in business, or perhaps just doesn't want to go
- to 2.0. Well, I have a beef with that. I think it really stinks that some
- software vendors don't make their systems work with new OS's. If you don't
- move forward, you are stuck. You start to get caught in situations where
- Vendor 1's software won't work with a new OS, so that means you stay on that
- OS and can't use the new gee-wiz features from Vendor 2 who is staying current
- with new OS releases. I really think the only way to escape this quagmire
- is to stay current, and only choose vendors (or force vendors - if you can)
- who stay current. Maybe in some perfect world you could write a program
- once and run it forever. But hey, I figure if you manage computers, you
- have to budget money for hardware upgrades, software upgrades, etc. After
- all, the software companys need something to do! :-)
-
- Well, maybe I lied up above, maybe I blame the end users, just a little bit.
- :-) I've known about the move to Solaris for quite a while, and while I
- knew it wasn't going to be easy, I have actually looked forward to it.
-
- And also, it's not like it doesn't happen. MS-DOS is at 5.0, VMS is at
- (what?) 5.1.x? And every time, something broke. But also, every time
- something was fixed, something was improved.
-
- # The CPU may be the same but the rest of the system is different. Look if you
- # want to run 4.x, go buy an IPX, it's not as if it has been discontinued.
-
- $ But the IPX is more expensive.
-
- > to migrate to Solaris 2.x instead of talking about hacking up hardware.
-
- I think that (just like Cobol and IBM), if you get into a situation where
- you are so dependent on you software which is unmaintainable, you just need
- to do what you need to to survive, and not expect to benifit from new
- technology. (ie, if you run an IBM 360 with Cobol programs that someone
- threw out the source for, a SPARC10 is of little consolation! :-)
-
- [Soapbox Off]
-
- Good day all!
-
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