In article 724397841@dayton.Stanford.EDU, lma@dayton.Stanford.EDU (Larry Augustin) writes:
>emike@sdc.com (E. Mike Durbin) writes:
>
>>My $.02:
>
>>It is in everyones BEST interest, including Sun's, for this transition
>>to be put behind us. Waffling between Solaris 1.x and 2.x helps
>>no one. Even if you don't like Solaris 2.x, ONE supported OS (with
>>all the apps migrated) is better than a mixed up world with some apps
>>running in one environment and others only running in the other.
>
>Exactly. And until all of our apps are ported to 2.x, and we're given
>free upgrades to those apps, 2.x is useless to us and we can't switch.
>Since it looks like it's going to be a while before that happens, we
>need 4.1.x on the new machines.
>
>Larry
Or buy the older machines, which already run 4.1.x...........
It's a really simple buying decision... If you need 4.1.x, buy an IPC/ELC/IPX/SS2
or SS10/20 or SS10/30....
If your applications run on Solaris 2.x, then you can buy a Classic or and LX...
Maybe you should ask your application suppliers to hurry up with their porting
so you can make use of the new low cost machines.... And if they give you enormous
lead times, ask *them* why they are making *you* pay more for *their* applications
(albeit indirectly in the hardware cost). It's not as if (a) Solaris 2.x is unavailable or (b) that no development tools exist.... and it's not as if they never had any warning that Solaris 2.x was coming... they've only had what 2 years of "SunOS 5.0 is coming and here is what you should be doing now to be ready for it..."
Don't ask Sun why they aren't supporting SunOS 4.x on the LX and Classic.
Ask application vendors why they haven't ported their applications to Solaris 2.x.
