Re: [foxboro] general modeling.
- From: Ted Jirik <Ted.Jirik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 23:29:34 -0700
I have been trying to get a formal answer from Invensys for the
availabilityof Windows APIs to
replace the functionality provided by the Solaris IPC and OM C function
libraries for a couple years.
Apparently there is nothing coming for Windows so all those apps written to
run on Solaris using
those functions are dead once the Solaris10 boxes are phased out.
We have given out hope in getting anything for Windows and have ordered
Solaris10 machines
for the mesh. They do provide these libraries and the apps can be ported to
Solaris10 fairly easily.
(This info comes from a friend that ported some fairly complicated code to a
Solaris10 beta machine).
Unfortunately, this is a very expensive proposition and we have not actually
been able to get a production
Solaris10 machine yet.
Meanwhile the Windows 2003 Server sits in the corner wasting cpu cycles
doingnothing in particular.
Except for the line of engineers waiting to run the control configurator.
Ted Jirik
Real Time Solutions
Corey R Clingo wrote: 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
doexist). 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
getyou by. Stability and robustness, well, those are beyond the scope of
thisbook :) Corey Clingo BASF Corporation "Duc M Do" <duc@xxxxxxxxxx>[1]
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[foxboro] general modeling. 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
therethat 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
tosleep 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
tothe 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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