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Re: actual technical questions (was Re: [SAGE] Did everyone Migrate to LOPSA ?)



>>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Rixon <ajr@trinity.fluff.org> writes:

Adrian> As a matter of interest, does migration to an Intel/AMD
Adrian> platform always go hand-in-hand with a move to Linux or BSD?
Adrian> Why not stay with Solaris/x86?  Licensing/support costs?

Application support.  I'm in an ASIC design shop, so we have whatever
OS the vendors support for the tools to design ASICs with.  Right now
it's Solaris 8 (fading rapidly) and RH 7.2/3 on 32 bit linux, RHEL3 on
AMD Opterons.  All with LSF, Netapps for NFS, etc.  And NIS.  

John