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- From: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters)
- Subject: Re: When to port to Solaris 2.x
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.235924.25189@ra.msstate.edu>
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- Organization: Computing Center, Mississippi State University
- References: <1992Aug28.124930.7014@access.digex.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 23:59:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug28.124930.7014@access.digex.com> dzik@access.digex.com (Joseph Dzikiewicz) says:
- :
- : We have a Sun application, and are giving some thought to when we
- : should port to Solaris 2.x. Does anyone know when Sun intends to
- : ship new SparcStations with 2.x? Does anyone have any other ideas
- : on when 2.x will achieve a significant presence?
-
- Sun plans call for Solaris 2.1 to ship in the late fall (November or
- so). This will be the first version to support (depending, I suppose,
- on your exact definition of support) their entire SPARC line. It will
- be the first version to ship to contract customers automatically (to
- get S2.0 you must specifically request it). And new systems are
- supposed to ship with it preinstalled at that time.
-
- How soon it will penetrate depends upon a lot of variables. Like any
- major new release it depends to a great extent on how soon software
- vendors will support their software under it. A lot of major vendors
- will support it just about immediately (a few already support S2.0
- now). Sun has been pushing vendors to port for a while now...expect
- them to begin pushing customers early next year.
-
- : (Porting our
- : software is the least of our problems: we have done ports to
- : several UNIX machines. I am mostly interested in when we should
- : dedicate a Sun to 2.x, and when we need to find a C compiler for
- : it.)
-
- That is an even harder question to answer. It depends upon your
- resources. If you have a machine to spare and a copy of S2.0 then now
- wouldn't be a bad time.
-
- It also depends upon your specific customer base. Are they typically
- the sorts of sites that don't really care about running the latest
- release as long as their software runs? Are they the sorts of sites
- that have lots of multiprocessor systems that will see a performance
- boost from an upgrade? Are they the sorts of sites that run a few big
- name applications likely to support S2.x soon or the sorts of sites that
- run a lot of small packages that may take longer?
-
- It might be worth while to spend some time surveying your current
- customer base and asking THEM when they plan to make the change.
- --
- Frank Peters - UNIX Systems Programmer - Mississippi State University
- Internet: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu - Phone: (601)325-7030 - FAX: (601)325-8921
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