Re: [foxboro] Some things to talk about

The reason why we really want to find out what's happening with SOTM is
that we are about to upgrade a plant from MOD300 to Foxboro I/A Mesh
with, you guessed it, a few UNIX boxes to do the hard slog like
modelling, data handling and reporting. We already have an extensive
UNIX based installation with all but one area in the primary operation
being Foxboro and we've developed tons of apps to do that sort of work.
Last month, during our user conference in Australia, we where told that
Foxboro is pulling the plug on UNIX in the next few months.
Can you imagine that that was giving us a big fright? All our I/A
systems are UNIX based and the new system was going to be a hybrid
system.

Foxboro I/A is reverting back to become a closed propriety system.
Simple things we've relied on for years, like CPshell, can not be
re-compiled and made to work for Windows. The libraries, needed to do
so, will not be made available. How many of you use SENDMSG in sequence
blocks to a device that actually is a program or script on your UNIX
box? You can kiss that goodbye alright.

It looks to me that the pressure from Microsoft to abandon all but the
Windows operating system, in lieu of their engineering support, has
become too great(or is it too attractive) for Foxboro and they have
succumbed to the........(finish in your own words)

It is a sad day today. Foxboro I/A was entirely designed and build on
UNIX.
Today they have abandoned their roots.

Frits.

:-(





-----Original Message-----
From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Duc M Do
Sent: Thursday, 24 July 2008 10:26 PM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] Some things to talk about

On Thu, July 24, 2008 12:21 am, Schouten, Frits JF wrote:

> SOTM  Solaris On The Mesh

Duh!

It goes to show that it didn't take but a couple of mojitos for me to
forget about work completely. Thanks, Frits.

Duc



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