Hugh McIntyre wrote:
> MSIE isn't really alive even on MacOS nowadays, last time I checked.
Nope - MS even pulled the downloads early this year, just tells everyone
to run Safari now.
> And the chances of getting Photoshop are pretty much nil as well, given
> that (a) it's not on Linux either,
But it was on Solaris SPARC many years ago (Photoshop 3.0/Solaris 2.3):
http://computing.ee.ethz.ch/sepp/photoshop-3.0.1-st/photoshopSun.pdf
> and (b) there's no motivation for this from Adobe, unless they expect to actually sell a significant number of copies on Solaris.
Unfortunately, past experience may have convinced them otherwise:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,6357,00.asp
Ported Threetimes?
They ported Framemaker to Linux *once* but cancelled it during its beta.
Photoshop on Irix over priced, under performing machines - gee, I wonder why people didn't purchase it - maybe because they were paying off the mortgage required for the machines alone.
Photoshop on Solaris SPARC - lets be honest, Solaris isn't exactly going to win awards for 'best usability' and given that the majority of people who use Photoshop are part of the non-technical arty-farty community, its highly unlikely that your average Mac or Windows artist is going to be willing to leap through 1/2 dozen flaming hoops just to get their workstation up and running. Couple that with over priced, under performing machines, I wonder why.
If Solaris had the ease of use of the Irixi desktop, Solaris core, and a great hardware support on the x86 - then it would be a great graphics workstation, but right now, it is barely useable as a desktop, pushing for it to be used as a platform for developing desktop applications will require some miracle work.
The first thing Sun could do is this; get rid of Xsun - blam, first problem out of the way; one solid X server to base everything onto rather than the litany of crap sprawlled around the hard disk (including such *STUPID* symbolic links between the various directories). The, start updating their JDS on a regular basis; Solaris 10 is still shipping with GNOME 2.6 as default - am I the only one who thinks thats a little crusty?
Matty
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