Personally, I find the concept of Sun :
a - Spending large investments of time and energy to make
their products work both on Intel and Sparc
b - Allowing and encouraging users to download Solaris
Intel and Sparc for free, and quite a few products and
extensions for them
c - Recognising and then publishing that the vast majority
of people who downloaded Solaris for free were
downloading the Intel version
...quite braindamaged, when they then decide to cease the Intel
version product line. All those people who downloaded the Intel
version (the vast majority of 1.5 million people apparently)
and thought it was good will remember this.
Seems quite a lot of good effort to have expanded the market,
then to just abandon it like that will leave a bad impression.
Not just scaled down. Abandoned. Gone. Morte. Kaput.
Personally, being a Solaris specialist (and using Sun OS's
since '93) I feel quite let down. I've got a few PC's around
running Solaris Intel for various things, so I'm unhappy.
As they can pull the plug on an entire OS architecture this easily,
even if they do bring it back at some point I'm not going to
feel they're very trustworthy to not do it again.
My recommending Solaris as a platform just stopped. :(
Yep Doug. It's a good reason to use Free Operating Systems.
+ Justin
Doug McNaught wrote:
>
> Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org> writes:
>
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > Chris Albertson wrote:
> > >
> > <snip>
> > > Solaris has very good RAID support built in. I think better
> > > than Linux's. Both OSes are free although Solaris 8 will be the
> > > last PC version.
> >
> > Where did you hear that Solaris 8 will be the last PC version? By "PC",
> > do you mean "Intel Platform" version?
>
> Yes. Sun dropped all support for x86. Slashdot covered it a few days
> ago.
>
> > I half downloaded the "Intel Platform" cd's for the Solaris 9 Early
> > Access program about a month ago, and now when I go to the Sun site the
> > rest are not available.
> >
> > This makes me greatly concerned. :(
>
> Good reason to use Free operating systems. ;)
>
> -Doug
> --
> Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.
> --T. J. Jackson, 1863
