Re: Let me own OpenVMS and I will destroy the linux market!
From: Andrew Harrison (andrew_remove__harrison_at_sun__.com)
Date: 10/15/04
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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:33:25 +0100
JF Mezei wrote:
> Andrew Harrison SUNUK Consultancy wrote:
>
>>Solaris x86 makes an interesting parallel, compare
>>and contrast the efforts that Sun has gone to to
>>attract new ISV's to Solaris x86, could that be
>>why we have well over double the available apps
>>on the platform.
>
>
>
> Mr Anddrew, since the current policy is for Solaris to exist on two distinct
> platforms, how would you characterize availability of software on both Sparc
> and 8086 ?
>
> Would the vast majority of ISV provide both versions of the software ? Or does
> Sparc still have a far greater selection of software than the 8086 ? (or the
> other way around) ?
>
SPARC still has a much larger SW portfolio than x86 but the gap
is closing. Seibel for example recently announced that they would
support their apps on x86 as well as SPARC.
> Your case is quite different from that of VMS since with VMS, each
> "coexistence" had been meant to be temporary during a transition (VAX to ALPHA
> to IA64), and due to the owners not pushing VMS, each transition resulted in
> even less software being available on the newer platform.
>
Well of course but the effort involved in getting ISV's to support
the platform is the same and in some ways the fact that Sparc and
x86 versions of Solaris are designed to run in parallel with each
other rather than replace each other is a dissadvantage. OpenVMS
ISV's have to port to the next platform if they wish to address
the OpenVMS market because new systems based on the old platform
will stop arriving, this impetus is not there in the Solaris
space because there is no intention to cut over from one to
the other.
> So I am curious on how ISV treat Solaris existing on 2 platforms at same time.
> Would serious banking apps exist only on SParc because there is no demand on
> 8086, or is the porting so easy that even such applications would be available
> on the 8086 ?
Porting is not difficult, qualification and testing is the biggest
overhead.
Regards
Andrew Harrison
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