John Martin wrote: > Martin Bochnig wrote: > >> >> >> I could not imagine, how complex and difficult SUNW's internal >> structure is. >> Especially didn't I understand, that X11_group != SPARCgfx_group. >> I thought "you"/SUNW were simply uninterested. >> >> > Please don't confuse over committed with lack of interest. > > A majority of SPARC desktops are bought by organizations > which want to continue to run the environment they have > already deployed. We could talk ourselves blue in the face > saying a transition from Xsun to Xorg would be transparent > to most applications (ignoring things like the loss of DPS), > but most wouldn't believe it nor commit to (up to) a 18 month > qualification cycle to verify it.
Oh. Xorg might indeed bring incompatibilities with it, which need to be fixes (and which costs time, effort and money). I begin to understand. > > We have many more organizations requesting new SPARC product > support on Solaris 8 than we do a move from Xsun to Xorg > (on Solaris 10, no less). At least this is not the case: Minimum is not Solaris 10 but Solaris8 (tested). Thanks. -- --Martin
