Re: [foxboro] general modeling.

Maybe you are right, but truthfully I haven't met too many 
non-Don-Unixote-Luddites amongst Foxboro's customer base (zero, to be 
precise).  Where's the overwhelming tide of customers clamoring for 
Windows that some folks in Foxboro told me existed?

Your plan's about the same as mine, though.  Either stay with Solaris and 
wait Foxboro out until their Windows story is more compelling, or switch 
to a system on which Windows isn't such a handicap (I don't love Windows 
in the general case, but these do exist).


As for Frits' original question, is the porting layer Foxboro used to be 
able to say, "hey, we do Windows, too!" (MKS?) available to customer 
programmers?  I'm sure there are differences between it and Solaris (I've 
already run across these with ksh scripts) but maybe it's close enough to 
get you by.  Stability and robustness, well, those are beyond the scope of 
this book :)


Corey Clingo
BASF Corporation






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On Thu, May 29, 2008 9:34 pm, Schouten, Frits JF wrote:

> But getting back to my initial question, what is the future of
> all those (user) applications developed on the Unix platform?

...

> Anyone out there that have developed some sort of a plan that
> would get us out of a pickle?

We, the user community, have only ourselves to blame. When Foxboro started
to push Windows and promised the world, and I mean the world: full
compatibility, better functionalities, plug-and-play, cold fusion, etc.,
we all gullibly swallowed it all (except for a few
tilting-against-the-windmill sticks-in-the-mud old-timers Unix Luddites
who were just against changes -- whew, is that enough hyphens in one
phrase?). We all deluded ourselves with the marketing hooey and merrily
skipped down the primrose path into the MS-centric promised land. Well,
now the bed is made, it's time we all have to sleep in it.

I know this is the same old rant from same old me, but it bears repeating.

And no, I don't have a plan, other than feebly hanging on to the last few
Unix boxes and hope they see me through until my retirement (which is not
even a glimmer on the horizon). How's that for a plan?

Duc


 



 
 
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