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- From: olsenc@carson.u.washington.edu (Clint Olsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.215659.20751@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 21:56:59 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov12.215659.20751
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- In article <1dtssaINN59p@life.ai.mit.edu> cracraft@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Stuart Cracraft) writes:
- >
- >After a one-month port of a simulator to the Solaris 2.0 environment,
- >we are seriously thinking of avoiding Solaris altogether. When you
- >carefully look at what can be achieved in-house when vendors don't
- >change out platforms from under the customer (e.g. more real work)
- >vs. when they do (e.g. catch-up make-work), it is very easy to
- >conclude that stepping into the Solaris 2.0 platform could waste
- >up to a man-year of one staff member's time doing porting, conversions,
- >learning System V unix, and so forth.
- >
- >For most environments in which Sun OS 4.1.2/4.1.3 is currently running,
- >System V is a poor replacement, with or without a compatibility package.
- >These customers typically do not want a shrink-wrap capable system and
- >are more interested in the Berkeley environment. When they find that
- >System V, Release 4 requires rewriting hundreds of their shell scripts
- >originally written under 4.1.X, even more additional conversion time
- >must be budgeted.
- >
-
- I think that there are many people who feel the way you do. System V
- is a BIG step backward in terms of compatibility and networking. It's
- a shame that the BSD project could be coming to an end.
-
- I will be happy to upgrade to SunOS 4.1.3, but will NOT be interested
- in being a guinea pig for Sun's new obomination with System V. The next
- few years of Sun administration is going to be REALLY scary.
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- olsenc@u.washington.edu
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