Comments on: It has become a tool like any other. http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/archives/8 Just another Blogsavy.com weblog Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:49:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Mark http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/archives/8#comment-8 Mark Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:28:30 +0000 http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/archives/8#comment-8 We started out with Solaris in this lab. The guys wanted to move to linux (which you'll notice I didn't capitalize). They thought you could just bring in another OS like linux, plug it in, and replace the pricey Sun hardware. "Because everyone else is doing it and the people I talked to said it worked fine" I just bought a used 440R for code that they can't port or applications not available on linux. And I warned them about 32 bit vice 64 bit / little endian vice big endian -- in one ear and out the other until it was too late. We "migrated" to linux 2 1/2 years ago but everyone still requires an account on the Solaris box to get their work done. Go figure. We started out with Solaris in this lab. The guys wanted to move to linux (which you’ll notice I didn’t capitalize). They thought you could just bring in another OS like linux, plug it in, and replace the pricey Sun hardware.

“Because everyone else is doing it and the people I talked to said it worked fine”

I just bought a used 440R for code that they can’t port or applications not available on linux. And I warned them about 32 bit vice 64 bit / little endian vice big endian — in one ear and out the other until it was too late.

We “migrated” to linux 2 1/2 years ago but everyone still requires an account on the Solaris box to get their work done. Go figure.

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